Classes. What's the point?

Question

I\'m fairly new to OOP in PHP, I\'ve made a couple of basic scripts but nothing impressive. All I\'ve really taken from it is that it would probably be easier just make a co

Answer 1

Just a coupl months back I was posting similar questions about classes, I have been using PHP for a few years now and I really didn't see a need to use classes, they just complicated a simple process like you said, well I finally decided to jump in on the Class train and I am still learning but I am comfortable using them now and WOW I have a completely opposite way of thinking about them now, I think they are the best feature in PHP now!

I will admit they can be overkill for a small application but a large social network site like mine is far from small, it has hundreds of files and now that I am converting over to classes it is structured much better now and easiar to build, update, manage my code and other users could come in and understand my whole site a lot better now that it uses classes. Another great feature is you can break up all those functions you might have into seperate class files and use autoload() function to auto load the correct file only when the class is needed, this is great on a big project too. Classes make things more plug in play.

All I can say is it's kind of one of those things you need to dive into to see the REAL benefits of it.