On 22 July 2010 15:27, Sebastian Ewert <seb2...@yahoo.de> wrote: > Jay Blanchard wrote: >> [snip] >> Thats exacty the point. In my user class I have functions whitch return >> object-lists of diffrent users or strings with html-form elements for >> managing this user account. >> >> But if I put all these in a helper class I would anyway need to >> implement the user object there, because of the other getter functions >> (getUserName etc.) and the table-objects. >> >> I always thought this would be less effective, because I have more >> instances of objects. >> [/snip] >> >> Sounds like a major refactoring is in order, how reusable is your class? >> >> There is not enough room in this e-mail to cover the basic and >> intermediate practices of OO design but it sounds like you may need to >> re-think your design. Does this class do one thing and only one thing? >> Does it do it really well? >> > > Thanks for your advice. I know that I have to go much deeper into > programm design. I would appreciate if you could send me some links with > practial examples. I've only read some theoretical and very general > stuff about it and cannot link everything to the real world. > >> Just from what I am reading I see that we have a user class >> (getUserName) and that class returns lists of users? It sounds as if to >> me that the user class talks not only about a single user, but perhaps >> all of the users (object lists of different users). >> > > That was just to generalize things. My user class only returns > informations for one user. These informations are values of db-fields or > generated html strings. > > But other classes like my message class have functions that return lists > of instances of their own class. From what you've written I think its > better to extract these functions into helper classes. > > But if you want to get all messages that refer to one specific msg its > better to leave that function in the message class, isn't it? Or if you > want to get a list with all friends of a specific user?(friends are not > implemented yet) > >> On the surface that sounds like to classes to me, a user class and a >> class to manipulate said users. >> >> > > But back to my first Problem: > > Is a class with 850 lines to long? > If it is should I take all the html genarating functions and put them in > a helper class? > If I do so and there is no way to call those functions without > initalizing the main user object, will there still be an increase of > performance? >
It's unlikely to cause you performance problems unless you've got a huge amount of traffic - and then you could probably fix your problems easier than refactoring classes. Personal anecdote: I've worked on classes longer than 3K lines with no marked performance problem. That doesn't mean I recommend it, though: bigger classes are a pain to maintain as you loose overview of what's in the class. Regards Peter -- <hype> WWW: http://plphp.dk / http://plind.dk LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/plind BeWelcome/Couchsurfing: Fake51 Twitter: http://twitter.com/kafe15 </hype> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
