is Object Orientednes valuable ?

Anon

I'm trying to figure out ,if OOP is valuable for web based applications.

It's possible to say that using classes instead of functions in our programs will reduce the amounth of code have to written each time.

But although building our applications over classes will make it faster to develop ,I'm thinking about server performance ,because objects will be "alive" in memory as long as process runs.

Could anyone explain me ,(if it is logical)why object oriented coding is much better in PHP ??

Thanx

Anon

[This is all personal opinion, I'm sure others will disagree with me.]

Could anyone explain me ,(if it is logical)
why object oriented coding is much better
in PHP ??

Quite often, OOP coders will tell you OOP is better, and straight-line coders will tell you straight-line is better, but neither is really true. Neither are "better" per se, it's just a different way of doing things. Some people are more comfortable with OOP, some are more comfortable coding in a straight line.

Personally, I think it really depends on the application and how it will be used, released, etc. If it's a small application that will never be released outside your own website, and it requires custom-built functions or code, there's absolutely no reason to make it object-oriented unless you want to. Even if you do, it may slow the application down a bit, so it might be a bad idea.

However, if the application is very large; or reuses code quite a lot; or will be released for further collaboration, it might be an idea to make it object-oriented, because it will make things easier for both yourself and other developers.

It's really a matter of personal taste and convenience.

adam

ame12

Good response.

My 2c: you can design things cleanly either way. Note, however, that PHP requires extra execution time to execute the same logic that is written OO-style as opposed to function-based approaches.

You can cleanly develop function libraries that can be included into your scripts. Just use consistent naming conventions and document/comment as necessary so it's easy for people to understand what you've done and how to use your stuff.

I would certainly advocate OO approaches if using C++ (yes, you can write non OO stuff in C++) because there is very little performance penalty and in many cases a size/speed benefit to OO.

Dave

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junkie_doodle

Maybe I have to explain our situation here...

But first of all thanx a lot for your attention..

We're a group of programmers ,building e-commerce ,intranet applications and providing dynamic content for web pages.

In this point I decided that if we build up a class library ,it would be easier to share our codes with each other in the team...

Problem started here... We've found that OOP makes our code a "hardware monster". Because there are lots of share-able code in our applications and classes keep alive during the process..I mean our applications were going to became a class farm and classes were not as innocent as thay were supposed to be.

We had to re-figure out if the way we kept is either true or not.

Well now I need your oppinions about OOP in PHP.. I need to know if we have to forget about performance in order to decide to keep OOP..

Thanx again..