NYCPHP Meetup

[Daniel Krook]

> So my main question is:  Why do people use object oriented programming 
in 
> websites?

There's a several reasons to use OOP for web applications.  For one, it 
matches model-driven development, which means you can put together a 
wireframe or workflow of what your site will do and use objects to 
represent the actors (Customers, Products), and methods to represent their 
actions (checkOut, logIn).  If you're working with clients or business 
teams who aren't technical, these concepts benefit them by modeling their 
rules and requirements and benefit you by providing a skeleton for the 
code you must write.

An added benefit of OOP is the inherent organization that it provides you. 
 If you must later add a new bit of functionality, it should be obvious to 
you - or any new team members that you might hire during the maintenance 
or development of the application - where that new code should go.

The reason that one would use OOP when building a web app in PHP isn't for 
technical advantages such as performance or persistence, it's about 
writing maintainable and flexible code that mirrors your clients' changing 
business needs.





Daniel Krook, Advisory IT Specialist - Application Development
WW Web Production Services North 2, ibm.com
1133 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, NY 10604

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