Introduction to Classes, Class Declaration and Objects

  In last article we talked about PHP’s development history in context of Object Oriented Programming. The aim of this article is understand how PHP implements basic OOP concepts like Creating objects, Methods etc. Classes and Objects As you must already know classes define objects. A class is a group of items that share common … Continue reading →

Objects and PHP: A brief evolutionary history

Objects were not a part of PHP in its earlier form. They weren’t even planned to be. PHP’s developers describe it as an afterthought. Objects made their first presence in PHP 3. PHP 3 was a complete rewrite of PHP 2 (then called PHP/FI 2.0). Here is how it happened: PHP/FI 2.0 (Personal Homepage Tools/Form … Continue reading →