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Note Submitter: keith at karsites dot net ---- This is the book that should come with PHP5's OOP support IMHO. The manual only documents the nitty-gritty of PHP5's OOP syntax. This book will teach you how to use that syntax to code elegantly in OOP terms. It has helped me get my head around thinking in terms of OOP. The code examples are fairly simple and in Java and C++. PHP5's OOP syntax is very similar to Java's. I would highly recommend this book if you are serious about learning to design and code in PHP5 OOP style. Title: OOP Demystified Authors: Jim Keogh & Mario Giannini Publisher: Osborne/McGraw Hill ISBN: 0-07-225363-0 Price: $19.95 USA, $28.95 CDN, £12.99 UK The authors have the ability to explain OOP concepts in a very easy to understand manner. Having said that, it has taken me three passes at the book for things to start falling into place for me. Once you have mastered thinking and designing with OOP, that will be applicable for any other OOP language. The concepts of OOP remain the same, whatever language you are using to implement those designs in. I'm finally getting the picture of how polymorphism works, and objects are instantiated on-the-fly dynamically at run time. Interfaces are no longer a mystery to me now either. HTH. Keith Roberts