brady.k — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:05:51 +0000

Your questions are not only all over the place, they only halfway make sense...

"Module"? What are you talking about?

The EASIEST way to do "modular" programming with PHP is create functions. Variable(s) in, Variable(s) out. Create a library of the functions you need, and then call them from your program, rather than writing the code in directly. Including this function library in all of your scripts/programs will allow you access to anything you put in there.

As for your other questions... I have no idea how to answer, because I don't even know what you're asking.

benf — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:54:30 +0000

What im still confused about also with PHP is the use of creating and installing module based functionality?!

Im getting really confused with it, what does it actually mean (easy maintainability) and when a module is installed how is it installed, how do other routines access them without modifying other files directly.?

Does anyone use some of the PHP or programming patterns that are available?

As for your post above about not really using visiblity within functions and variables, it seems that im finding this object orientation PHP rather easy and i dont like things that seem easy??!! Doesnt fill me with confidence.

brady.k — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:26:59 +0000

Well... that's a very broad question.

A quick and dirty answer to all of them is to say that PHP and OOP usage are usually based on functions and structured statements.

For example:
[action A (click on something)] triggers [if statement or switch A] triggers [appropriate function]

So... how you do it is pretty varied but it's basically having a large choice of actions and associated functions, and using them correctly.

As for private, public, or protected... I've never actually used/understood them myself, so I just do a typical function call without any status declaration.

Variable usage is tricky across OOP programming in PHP so you have to be careful that if you make something global to be easily accessed, that you don't change it unless you need to. Also, make sure you pass the variables required between functions if they aren't global.

Hopefully that was a little help...