Classes Fundamentals

harvillo

I have found myself with a config file with several functions I would like to place in classes though, after some reading, am still unclear on a few things, the primary being how to store hese classes. Should I store each container of classes in its own individual file or is it fine if I place them in one config file?

planetsim

Usually I find myself creating different files for each class no thats a preference thing. You can have as many classes as you like in a file. However the only time this happens if I have a nested class, or if I am extending a class and wish to keep the base and its child classes together, which is quite rare. Mainly this is to use PHP 5's __autoload()

halojoy

I do like this mostly

I have one folder '/includes/'
then each class is a php in that folder, together with all other include files
I name these classes: 'classname.class.php'

For example a class 'my_minidb' is file
/includes/my_minidb.class.php

To use:

<?php

include './includes/my_minidb.class.php';

$minidb = new my_minidb();

$minidb->create_table( 'users' );

?>

Zend.com Good Tutorial on Class programming

Also other good tutorials/articles to find in internet about classes:
Google search string: php OOP class object article OR tutorial

http://www.google.com

halojoy.com with PHP Research pages

/halojoy
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harvillo

Thanks...that helped very much. 🙂

halojoy

Another thing is good with using
subdirectory, folder, 'includes'

This is where you have index:

/includes/ (= folder)
index.php
mypage2.php
mypage3.php
.htaccess

.htaccess tells apache server who can access files, index.php ....
contents of .htaccess
Allow from All

now 'includes' subfolder can have its own .htaccess file
with this contents, to protect you data ...
.htaccess in 'includes'

Deny from All

means nobody can directly access you files, but PHP still can use those
includes files: like 'my_minidb.class.php'

STRUCTURE:

/images/
..... image1.jpg
..... image2.jpg

/includes/
.... .htaccess (Deny from All)
..... my_minidb.class.php
..... config.php

.htaccess (Allow from All)
index.php
mypage1.php