OO(P) Website, is it worth it??

depaashaas

Hi all!

I've a question,

I have the understanding if OO(P), but I can't see the advantages to program a (normal) website the OO manner. May oppinion is that the overhead is rather big (if not huge). Won't you end up with many many classes? Webpage's with defferent scripts, or multiple scripts, different menu's etc. etc.

I would be glad the hear someone's else opinion! And how you think are the advantages/disadvantages.

Best greatings,

DePaasHaas (R. Bruning)

knickerlas

Check out the post below, he's asking a similar question 😉

Nick

Anon

;_) oh! 🙂 I see, tnx.

I'm almost comming to the conclusion that OOP isn't worth it, altleast to deal width the website as a whole, items in a page are obvious of course. But then.. consistent? Everything in OOP or not at all... hmm..

I'l think about it 😉

Again, Thanks for your Relpy!

(pls let me know how you handle most cases😉 )

Best grtz,

DePaasHaas

Anon

Here's my take.

Programming languages are not languages but notational systems (to quote Wirth). The purpose of OOP is to make the notational system easier to understand and maintain. If you encounter a situation where OOP does not make the code simpler and easier to maintain, then don't use it. Be practical, not dogmatic.

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Anon

Description:
In this article, Ken shows you how to create your Data Layer in your PHP application using the OO paradigm to easily store, manipulate and retrieve data. Ken also shows you easier ways to maintain your code in the data layer. He first discusses a very simple, one table database and then shows the necessary data factory and data access objects. He concludes the article with source code and a practical use of the code that we develop.

Link:
http://coffeecode.com/newsview.php?aid=49&apid=1

Descripton:
Ken explains how to model tables in your database to reflect inheritance hierarchies or uses of delegation when using the object oriented paradigm. For those that write lots of SQL code and want to minimize writing SQL by avoiding duplication and promote better unit testing for data access objects, than this article is definately worth the read.

Link: http://coffeecode.com/newsview.php?aid=9&apid=1

Both have diagrams and I think are well written. This is the best practical article of the use of OOP in a PHP data driven website.

depaashaas

Thank you Nola!

I will check out the links right now!

Anon

At this point I would say avoid it. It got into an OO solution for extensibility reasons, but now that I have truly built on it my pages take .8 seconds to generate...unacceptable for any serious server load.

voostind

Well, then you've just implemented your classes the wrong way...

Regretfully I don't have a link, but someone has already benchmarked OO in PHP against 'normal' scripts, and he didn't find a difference.

I've built about 4 websited completely OO, and they're blazingly fast.

So draw your own conclusions!

voostind

I agree completely with you here, but I'd also like to say this:

In my experience, EVERY procedural program can be replaced with an OO program, resulting in less code, that is simpler and easier to maintain.

In my (humble) opinion, procedural programming is outdated, and shouldn't be used at all anymore. It's ugly, leads to bloated code, and is extremely hard to maintain.

But then: I'm an OO freak... :-)

Vincent