--On Friday, July 18, 2003 14:28:02 -0700 Chris Shiflett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- Andu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:This may show my ignorance or my refusal to take for granted something I don't fully understand but I have a hard time figuring out the advantage of using classes as opposed to just functions.
They are entirely different. While OO fans will find my over-simplification disgusting, a class is basically a way to associate data with the functions that manipulate that data.
Say I have a database class with all kinds of functions for connection, data manipulation, errors, etc:
$db = new db_sql; $db->connect(); $db->do_this(); $db->do_that();
How would that be different from an include file with a bunch of functions doing the same thing?
Is there any performance benefit one way or the other?
I used EZ_Sql which is cool but didn't seem to speed things up in comparison to the said include file.
Still don't see the beef.
Brad recommended I spend even more time with google looking for OOP, maybe that's why I'm so confused:).
Chris
Regards, Andu Novac
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