General Marketplace Project help - OOP related

gnat0

Hello everyone

I've started a new project, which is to create a marketplace. I've already got the basics done like; adding, editing, deleting listings, profiles etc..

But at the moment its not in OOP at all, and i don't use very many custom functions. I say i don't use very many what i mean is, i use ... well one and thats for cleaning input before placing in database. However its all broken up into quite a few files.

What would be the advantages of trying to code it in OOP (considering i code alone)? Apart from the learning experience (don't know much about OOP)? Is breaking it up into lots of files alright?

A little voice in my head is telling me i should use more functions, in my project what sort of things would i use a function for? I take it the idea is the recycle code and to break it up, but whats the advantage of breaking it up into functions not files?

I'm still a beginner so any comments, advice is most welcome!

Regards
Nathan

halojoy

hi, man

there are plenty of good discussions in OOP topics, here before
Even some STICKY Threads, I think I have seen,
that tells When prefer to use Class and when use Function.

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This topic has been asked so many times before
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halojoy

NogDog

There are many advantages to OOP which have been described here and all over the web. The advantages tend to increase with the size of the project, but even on smaller projects I find that using OOP techniques help me to better organize my software design and to create cleaner code. Once I started to gain some facility with OOP, it just became the natural way for me to want to do things except for the smallest and simplest of things (the sort of thing you can do in one or two pages with only a little PHP code).

Oject-Oriented Programming Concepts
PHP 101, Part 7
PHP 5 classes and object

gnat0

Thanks for the replies.

I guess the adv. of OOP has been asked loads before and i do apologize i'll have to do some reading up, but i was looking for more of a what kind of things should be placed in functions with the marketplace idea in mind?

And is breaking it up into lots files instead of functions a bad thing?

I guess i didn't word my question right, but thanks anyway.

laserlight

I guess the adv. of OOP has been asked loads before and i do apologize i'll have to do some reading up, but i was looking for more of a what kind of things should be placed in functions with the marketplace idea in mind?

To answer that, consider what kind of entities you are dealing with. These can be modeled as objects.

And is breaking it up into lots files instead of functions a bad thing?

One way is to place each class in its own file.