Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] OOP structuring question

[Larry G. <la...@ga...>]

On Thursday 11 June 2009 7:43:48 am Kenneth Downs wrote:
> OOP is an amazing and wonderful thing, when used in its context.
>
> Discovering the context is simple in black-and-white cases.  The user
> interface lends itself very nicely to OOP concepts, and I've found UI's
> much easier to build with the OOP approach.
>
> Mapping to the database is more of a gray area because the database
> operates on different principles.  Where the code meets the database you
> have a decision about how to proceed.

Not only is it a good history lesson, this article is also spot-on about the 
challenges of OO software and relational databases:

http://blogs.tedneward.com/2006/06/26/The+Vietnam+Of+Computer+Science.aspx

One of the things I really like about PHP is that it lets you mix and match 
procedural, OO, and in 5.3 functional code to match your use case.  Don't 
assume that one approach is always better.  It's been shown mathematically 
that there is no problem that cannot be solved in all three approaches.  It's 
just often much easier to solve a given problem in one of them, and a different 
problem in another.  Right tool for the job and son on.

-- 
Larry Garfield
la...@ga...