"Bobby Rahman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I am new to PHP and was wondering whether to develop small applications (20 > pages ) is it worth it to use OOP?
My take is that on 20 pages especially if they behave like app, it makes sence to use OO. > In particular I am having troubles breaking my application design-wise, into > classes and operations. I could give you some hints how would you go on dividing things with TemplateTamer. When working with TT, you need to define a class for each page on your site, and this class provides the data in the run time needed to display the page (i.e. it provides values for the variables, and which templates get displayed, etc). First you would define base class for your site, that would contain handling of elements common to all of your pages. For instance menu, footer, you get the idea. For the parts that change from page to page (perhaps title, or main content in the middle, or..) you would call a member function leaving this function responsible to return correct values. Now when defining the class for particular page, you would go on by extending this base class for this site, and automatically inherit common behaviour. For things that are specific for this page you would overide member functions from the base class and provide specific implementation (for instance function returning a middle content). Now dependning on the size and complexity of your site, 2 things would probably come naturaly. One is that you would refine your class hiearchy of pages. So you would for instance have one base class, then for instance class for the user pages, and class for supervisor pages, both of them extending base class. Now all user pages would extend user page class, and all supervisor pages would extend supervisor page class. Anothe thing that could happen is that you would define classes for parts of your interface, for instance toolbox, or similar. When you do so, you will be able to configure them and insert as components in each particular page. Probably it does sound like a lot of complication, especially in the begging, but once you get a hang of it, it is a real time saver, an let's you concentrate on your applications behavior and functionality. If you need some more advice how to use TemplateTamer and OO togehter, drop me an e-mail. rush -- http://www.templatetamer.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
