Hour 9. Objects

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

  • What objects and classes are

  • How to create classes and instantiate objects

  • How to create and access properties and methods

  • How to manage access to properties and methods

  • How to create classes that inherit functionality from others

  • How to find out about objects in your code

  • How to save objects to a string that can be stored in a file or database

Object-oriented programming is dangerous. It can change the way you think about coding, and once the concepts have a hold on you, they don’t let go. PHP, like Perl before it, has progressively incorporated more object-oriented aspects into its syntax and structure. PHP 4 made it possible to use object-oriented code at the heart of a project. PHP 5 has extended ...

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