27 Jan 09 A Beginner’s Guide to Object Oriented Programming (OOP) in PHP5 – Classes, Objects and Methods

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The Personal Home Page (PHP) programming language provides a lightweight framework and foundation for Web application development. It runs on Apache (HTTP) Web server software amonst others, embedded into Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), passed through a Hypertext Preprocessor. As free, open source software – it has low implementation, maintenance and debugging costs. Its latest iteration called PHP5, has incorporated even more powerful object-oriented programming functionalities.

While PHP3 has rendered server-side scripts and PHP4 has established backward compatibility, PHP5 has improved object-oriented programming (OOP) as a cross-platform language. OOP bundles data and code into “objects”. PHP5 works better with object handles; passing or assigning by reference is not required.
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