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[Eddie Drapkin]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Yitzchak Schaffer
<yitzchak.schaffer at gmx.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> As I work on refactoring an app I'm working on and getting more of a feel
> for OOP, I wonder if folks can recommend any best-practices guides for
> general OOP principles.  I read most of the Zandstra book, and found it very
> helpful for understanding the fundamentals of the OOP approach, and patterns
> in particular.
>
> Now I'm looking for something a bit more nuts-and-bolts rigorous; as an
> example of couple questions I had recently:
>
> When should one use a factory method
> $foo = Foo::factory( $this )
> as opposed to using the constructor in the client code
> $foo = new Foo( $this )
> ?
>
> And as corollary, what belongs in a constructor and what doesn't?  In
> http://www.slideshare.net/sebastian_bergmann/introduction-to-phpunit-best-practices
> slides 19-22, Sebastian Bergmann of PHPUnit alludes to this question, but in
> that presentation is apparently assuming the audience is familiar with the
> answer, and doesn't go into it; his tagline is "don't do work in the
> constructor," but rather do something like the following.  I don't know what
> does and does not constitute "work."
>
> $foo = new Foo( $this );
> $foo->build();
>
> Based on Amazon reviews, I just bought a copy of the 1994 ed of
> Object-Oriented Software Construction : Bertrand Meyer on Half.com; any
> further recommendations?
>
> Thanks,
>
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I suppose this might be a little taboo on a PHP list, but Thinking In
Java is hands down the best OOP guide I've ever seen, let alone read.
As a positive side-effect, you get to learn Java, but there's no
better place IMHO to learn object orientation.  And it's free[1]!

[1]: http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/