OO PHP explanation For a braindead n00b

Question

I\'ve been writing PHP for about six years now and have got to a point where I feel I should be doing more to write better code. I know that Object Oriented code is the way

Answer 1

A warning is at place: you won't learn OO programming without learning OO design! The key concept is to define the functions operating on your data together with the appropriate data. Then you can tell your objects what to do, without having to query their contents.

Surely take a look at the "Tell, don't Ask" philosophy, and the "Need to know" principle (aka the "Law of Demeter") is a very important one, too.