Script design dialog

Cleric

After working with PHP 4.2.x and MySQL for a year now, I feel I have come to a point where I am fairly confident that I know the works of how to use PHP. However, as I am a Computer Science major here at LSU, I look at the form of my code and seems more I desire out of it.

My question to the community is: what epiphanies have you, as developers, seen with the structure of your scripts? Are they modular, object oriented, or just one big messy glob of code? What would you recommend in ways of making your code modular? What would you recommend in ways of making your code object-oriented?

Appreciate all of the advice!

bbaassiri

i prefer a mix of both , but by far modular works nice and easy

have look at this architecture/framework for developing web apps

fusebox 3.0

Jayson

Modularity is a nice idea. I don't do any object oriented or class stuff yet, but I always try to think ahead of what I'm doing. I try to generalize as much of the program as I can so it can be adapted and expanded later with minimal work. That's the approach I use, and its worked nicely, for both web apps and C programs.

wilsonodk

It depends on what I am working on and with what language.

When using Flash and ActionScript, I tend to use a very OO methodology. Due largely to the fact that ActionScript is somewhat OO.

In contrast, with PHP I have never used the OO features, instead sticking with a more procedural paradigm or big messy chucks of code. Just depends on what I am doing. 🙂

I think everyone would benefit from learing both, but unless the language you use really supports the type of abstraction you are doing it won't really matter either way.

Tekron-X

Personally with the fact that I am 16 years old and I learned Visual Basic, then Java 2, then HTML, then PHP now working on learning C++. I take the role of modularization and OOP. I use both lol. I find that combining these to types I get the best results b/c they both have benifits. 🙂

Bunkermaster

modules for everyday stuff
OOP for high maintenance code

MY RULE : IF YOU CUT & PASTE CODE, IT MEANS YOU HAVE TO REFACTOR YOUR CODE (same code in zillion places makes it a damn hard task to maintain)