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

It would definitely be easy to code in procedural programming (that's what your simple process is called) if your website is small. But as your website grow, you will definitely need to sort things.

For example, you will need classes to act as templates for entities to the database. You might need classes to represent each page, and in a single file you might create multiple pages. Thus these are all advantages of OOP.

In another example you have like 40 over functions. You would want to group them together. Putting them in a class as static methods would definitely help. It'll clean things up so that in future when you come back to the same code, everything looks familiar to you.