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

I always thought the same thing until I started using classes--realizing that it is so much simpler and better. You should create those functions that you're mentioning, but gather them all within a class. The functions can then within a class share the same variables, and therefore making it simpler when having to use the same functions multiple times.

The best example I can come up with now is connecting to a database.

Instead of having individual functions that connect, sends a query, fetching the results and closing the connection you could wrap all these functions within a class. This would allow you to communicate to the database multiple times using the same functions, without having to make loads of variables tailored for the specific use on the page.