OOP w/ PHP

[Anon]

Hi,

I know that OOP in PHP is weak (after all, not many folks try to develop intricate heirarchial programs with PHP). But I want to know whether using OOP in PHP will slow the script down.

I'm writing a portal software where all the different sections (news, events, sports) are built as "modules". These modules are PHP classes.

Now my question is: if I use OOP in PHP vs. procedural programming, will PHP run the OOP code slower?

please help! I'm building this portal for a company which expects over 100000 page accesses a day (all pages are PHP generated).
-sridhar

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Yes OOP is slower than procedural. It must be, because you are using more resources and making more complex code.

But that does not mean you can't use it.
100k page accesses a day is not really something to worry about,
and doesn't mean a single thing if you don't know the server's specs.