Help with OOP

[tshafer]

Currently, I'm writing a custom Image Gallery script for my website. I want to learn OOP, so I decided to try to write this in objects. I've read plenty of tutorials, but I'm still lost. 😕

I want it to be able to choose from multiple albums, display thumbnails, be able to click on a thumb and see the full-size picture, etc. DO I write classes for each of these events? Do I write one huge class? As you may see, I have no idea what I'm doing :p

---tom

[Norman_Graham]

Hi Tom

You can write one huge class with loads of methods for all the things you want to do, or you can write several classes, each addressed to a particular area of functionality. There might be some performance advantages to doing several classes if you expect to have to deal with heavy traffic on your site.

There may also be some recycling advantages to having several classes - you can use code blocks in other applications as and when you need them rather than loading an enormous class every time, only to use one or two methods from it.

As for the actual details - can't help you there. I'm currently struggling to master the concepts of OOP myself.

Best o luck

Norm

[greg252]

I have yet to find the benefit of writing objects in PHP. I hear that v5 has some great inhancements in OO, but until then, I'll stick with my little functions.