Skeleton Class

[berridgeab]

Hi

 

Just fishing for opinions here, is it a good idea to break classes down to skeleton parts?

 

i.e.

 

I have a class called Person.

 

class Person
{
   public $id;
   public $name;
   public $age;

   //Getters / Setters Go here
   function id() { return $this->id; }

   function load($id)
   {
      //Database loading logic here
   }
}

 

To something more reuseable i.e.

 

abrstract class SkeletonPerson
{
   public $id;
   public $name;
   public $age;

   //Getters / Setters Go here
   function id() { return $this->id; }
}

class Person extends SkeletonPerson
{
   function load($id)
   {
      //Database loading logic here
   }
}

[trq]

Yes it's a good idea to abstract as much functionality away you can into base classes. Just be aware though that php is only single inheritance, this means you can end up with long chains of relationships.

[berridgeab]

Thanks for the clarification.