Can't get my head around CLASSES

[BenCOMPLEX]

Hi all,

I need some help with classes.

I know roughly the basics of classes. You can put lots of functions in a class and then call them like classname->function(); But what is the benefit of this over just making functions called function? Also in a lot of the sample classes I've seen they have things like var $this = array(); What is the purpose of this?

Thanks

[BenCOMPLEX]

Apologies, I meant to post that in 'Coding'. Mods please move.

[bretticus]

This seems to be a very common question in this forum. I and others were just explaining classes to someone else not too long ago. A lot a good links can be found in these posts