I had an interview today. I had a question from OOP, about the difference between Encapsulation & Abstraction?
There is a great article that touches on differences between Abstraction, Encapsulation and Information hiding in depth: http://www.tonymarston.co.uk/php-mysql/abstraction.txt
Here is the conclusion from the article:
Abstraction, information hiding, and encapsulation are very different, but highly-related, concepts. One could argue that abstraction is a technique that helps us identify which specific information should be visible, and which information should be hidden. Encapsulation is then the technique for packaging the information in such a way as to hide what should be hidden, and make visible what is intended to be visible.