Re: String Class

> > > Matthew Fonda wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I have created a string class in PHP. It is pretty much a copy of java's > >String class, but it will add a few new features, and allows you to do > >certain things with strings in PHP easier and quicker. I find this > >useful when you are using strings that you need to do a lot of stuff to, > >it works better than just using PHP's default string functions, and > >provides an OOP wrapper for them. > > This looks completely useless to me. Almost every methods you propose already > exist as a native PHP function which will of course be a lot faster to call. > But that's just my opinion, PHP is not Java. I wouldn't like to see PHP code > developed with this kind of wrappers. So it is a -1 here. > > Bertrand Mansion > Mamasam > > -- I agree with Bertrand, a strong -1 for all this kind of classes that brings into the PHP world the worst of the Java world... My personal experience is that a java-like design pattern, at application level, results into very slow php scripts, perhaps slower than the java equivalent. Since performace is a key feature of php, I find conceptually wrong an heavy OO pattern with a lot of objects to do every thing. Luca Mariano -- Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Natsabe.it significa Natura, Salute e Bellezza ... ma non solo! Vasta scelta di articoli da regalo. Belli e originali. Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=1306&d=20041213