OOPHP - any good ? suggestions ?

[Anon]

Hi!

I'm currently writing some kind of Directory Service (NDS, ActiveDirectory, File System) in PHP which is used for storing, viewing and receiving all sorts of different kind of file formats.

as each of the file formats has individual ways to view or get them, I immediately though that it would be best to realise the program very object oriented.

so far I proceeded very good with that, but just now I found out with some testing that using OO in PHP is very very slow compared to just "plain" function calls. especially if I print out lists of objects where I have to create each object to call a "list-yourself" method it takes 5-8 times as long as with plain function calls.

is there any way to optimise here or is there some know-how involved I'm missing ?

Has someone else already have had experience with OOPHP ??

I would hate to have to throw everything away and write it in "the oldfashioned way" ...

[Anon]

I've used object oriented PHP in some projects..

Mainly to do database interaction and abstraction.

Yes, it is in most cases slower than doing 'normal' functions.

I was also in doubt when I used it in one project, if I should go with OOP since it was kinda slow .. I've used it because in that project, code reuse and abstraction was lot more important than super speed ..

The new Zend Engine ( 2.0 ) will have improved OOP, and I'm waiting to see what they'll do to the speed.

If someone does know a way to get a faster OOP in PHP, I would also like to know ..

[Anon]

OOP classes are slower than plan function calls. After all, PHP isn't primarily an object oriented language.

My experince says that there are number of situations in which are classes usefull, but slower speed of code is something that's allways coming along with them.

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