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

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If you don't understand the purposes of patterns, your really not going to use objects to their fullest. You need to know why inheritence, polymorphism, interfaces, factories, decorators, etc. really make design easier by addressing particular issues.