Classes vs. not using them

[insaynewrapper]

I'm a pretty decent PHP developer, but I have yet to implement classes in my work, and I'll tell you why: I've never had a need to. I just plain and simple don't understand the need for oop when I'm working. I don't see the advantage of using it. What can I do through oop that I can't do otherwise?

Thoughts?

[CheesierAngel]

Using OOP is not a matter of extending the PHP code abalities. It's more a way to organize your code
so it becomes easier to extend a certain application or re-use your code. Classes are notting
more then a described object with the necessary variables and functions to manipulate the object.

[insaynewrapper]

And I understand that, but I don't see how it's any more organized than not using them. Maybe you could give me an example...?

[CheesierAngel]

For example, you can create a class user so any information is stored in this object for a regular website visitor.
But if you 'as webmaster' want to log-in you want more privileges. So you make another class superuser extended from the regular user class and you can re-use the function and extend them without rewriting them.

[trq]

Your not going to [i]get[/i] the concepts of oop explained in a simple forum reply, hell, I have several books, probably 6000 pages of examples and theory and Im still just comming to terms with it.

I suggest... if your interested in the whys... a good place to start is the book [url=http://www.odioworks.com/download/TIJ-3rd-edition4.0.zip]thinking in java[/url], available free. ok... so its not php, but php and java share much the same syntax these days, and the oop concepts don't change.