Object Oriented PHP

[odinsride]

Hi all,

I am fairly new to PHP and web languages (but not programming / OOP). I am wondering if anyone could recommend some good sites/books on developing PHP using OOP and MVC design.

Currently I'm following this site:

http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/databaseobjects.html

It's a good start, but I am wondering if there are any other good resources on the topic, especially since this guy himself says he does a few things his own way.

Thanks in advance!

 

[digitalField]

heyo.

im no professional developer by any means but i do like to dabble and make things..

I have been using CakePHP, which is a oop/mvc php framework, for the last year or so and its been a blast. Pretty easy, solid community and opensource so if you wanna get in and see all the under workings you are more then welcome.

http://cakephp.org/
http://book.cakephp.org/

and their are some great tuts out there for getting started.
they are also getting ready for a big 2.0 release of the framework which is suppose to make it even more OOP ( personally not sure what they mean by it, but a couple peeps in IRC were all excited about it )

m

 

[elppa]

At the risk of stating the obvious, have you take a look here:

Classes and Objects

If you are familiar with programming then it will give a good idea of the php idioms and terminology.

 

[odinsride]

heyo.

im no professional developer by any means but i do like to dabble and make things..

I have been using CakePHP, which is a oop/mvc php framework, for the last year or so and its been a blast. Pretty easy, solid community and opensource so if you wanna get in and see all the under workings you are more then welcome.

http://cakephp.org/
http://book.cakephp.org/

and their are some great tuts out there for getting started.
they are also getting ready for a big 2.0 release of the framework which is suppose to make it even more OOP ( personally not sure what they mean by it, but a couple peeps in IRC were all excited about it )

m

I actually played with CakePHP last night (before seeing your reply), and absolutely love it...it was just what I'm looking for, and the documentation is very good. I think I will stick with it for the time being instead of attempting to build my own MVC framework LOL

 

[Darth.Titan]

I much prefer CodeIgniter over CakePHP. It just seems more intuitive.

 

[Cabbit]

I much prefer CodeIgniter over CakePHP. It just seems more intuitive.

I found CodeIgniter allows to much sloppy code and has a poor structure, if your wanting to move on with PHP i would suggest Zend Framework with PHPActiveRecord, the code/file structure is very clean and documentation is 2nd to none.

 

[digitalField]

I actually played with CakePHP last night (before seeing your reply), and absolutely love it...it was just what I'm looking for, and the documentation is very good. I think I will stick with it for the time being instead of attempting to build my own MVC framework LOL

yea its a blast.
lemme know if oyu have any questions about it, i am no expert but I have built a handful of sites with it now.

also i highly recommend the irc room.

M