Re: [PHP] class design

2004-04-13 Thread Kelly Hallman
Apr 13 at 2:24am, Andy B wrote: > instead of making one super huge class.. > turn that class into a bunch of mini classes. > DbConnect, DbError, DbQuery, DbResult and so on... Right; chances are if you had all the functionality in one class, it's going to be pretty identical to writing it without

[PHP] class design

2004-04-12 Thread Andy B
hi... i was reading something on phppatterns website about class design. the reading said that its best to take say a db extraction class that you might want to write and instead of making one super huge class out of it called "db" or whatever it would be called but to turn that "db" class into a

Re: [PHP] class design question

2004-01-12 Thread Kelly Hallman
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, rogue wrote: > i am working out the finishing touches on a authentication class that > uses mysql to store the time of last access and some other goodies. > > my question is, when developing a class that uses a database, what is > the best way to handle the database bit? for n

RE: [PHP] class design question

2004-01-12 Thread Giz
h can be found here: http://www.justinvincent.com/ -Original Message- From: rogue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 2:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] class design question hi there. i am working out the finishing touches on a authentication class that uses m

Re: [PHP] class design question

2004-01-12 Thread Justin Patrin
Jason Sheets wrote: Take a look at the PEAR DB Abstraction layer, I usually store connection info in an XML or INI file and use parse_ini or PEAR Config to parse the configuration file. http://pear.php.net hi there. i am working out the finishing touches on a authentication class that uses mysq

Re: [PHP] class design question

2004-01-12 Thread Jason Sheets
Take a look at the PEAR DB Abstraction layer, I usually store connection info in an XML or INI file and use parse_ini or PEAR Config to parse the configuration file. http://pear.php.net > hi there. > > i am working out the finishing touches on a authentication class that > uses mysql to store the

[PHP] class design question

2004-01-12 Thread rogue
hi there. i am working out the finishing touches on a authentication class that uses mysql to store the time of last access and some other goodies. my question is, when developing a class that uses a database, what is the best way to handle the database bit? for now i just set the connection i

RE: [PHP] Class Design Question...

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Joseph
2 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [PHP] Class Design Question... > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:34 AM said: > > > I'm rewriting a lot of code and have decided to use classes... I&

Re: [PHP] Class Design Question...

2003-08-14 Thread David Otton
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:33:54 -0500, you wrote: >Basically in the class I have methods that perform a task, and return true >on success, or false on failure. Easy enough. If it returns false however, I >want to display errors for the user. The best way I can think of doing this >is adding a member v

Re: [PHP] Class Design Question...

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Beaver
Dan Joseph wrote: Hi, Are there any performance differences that are noticable in a 300-400 line PHP script if you overuse classes rather than straight functions? This is a loaded question. If you overuse classes, there will be a performance hit :). However, in a 300-400 line script,

[PHP] Class Design Question...

2003-08-14 Thread anachronism
Hello, I'm rewriting a lot of code and have decided to use classes... I'm wondering if this would be considered bad design or not... Basically in the class I have methods that perform a task, and return true on success, or false on failure. Easy enough. If it returns false however, I want to disp

Re: [PHP] Class Design Question...

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Beaver
Dan Joseph on Wednesday, August 06, 2003 10:18 AM said: Are there any performance differences that are noticable in a 300-400 line PHP script if you overuse classes rather than straight functions? This is a loaded question. If you overuse classes, there will be

RE: [PHP] Class Design Question...

2003-08-14 Thread Chris W. Parker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:34 AM said: > I'm rewriting a lot of code and have decided to use classes... I'm > wondering if this would be considered bad design or not... [snip] /Sounds/ like a good idea. Are you really going to end up with an a

RE: [PHP] Class Design Question...

2003-08-14 Thread Chris W. Parker
Dan Joseph on Wednesday, August 06, 2003 10:18 AM said: > Are there any performance differences that are noticable in a > 300-400 line PHP script if you overuse classes rather than straight > functions? I have no definitive answer but I would assume the answe

RE: [PHP] Class Design Question...

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Joseph
Hi, > >>Are there any performance differences that are noticable in a > >>300-400 line PHP script if you overuse classes rather than straight > >>functions? > > This is a loaded question. If you overuse classes, there will be a > performance hit :). However, in a 300-400 line script, you mig

RE: [PHP] Class Design Question...

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Joseph
Hi, > Otherwise, a year down the line, you find yourself stuck with a thing > that needs a small modification which will take you hours and hours and > hours and probably turn your little project into spaghetti (speaking > from experience). That's probably some good advice, and something