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[Jon Haworth]

Hi Chris,

> > So, I like OO programming. I learnt how to program with Java.
> > But I understand that PHP is not designed form the ground up
> > to be OO.
>
> Well, my layman understanding is that there's quite a bit of OO
> infrastructure built into PHP, especially from poking through
> some of the GPL'd PHP apps on Freshmeat and Sourceforge -
> they're outstanding!

PHP has limited support for OO. Specific problems are:
 - no overloading
 - no destructors
 - no private methods/properties
 - single inheritance only (IIRC)

Improving the OO bits is apparently a very high priority for the next
release.

Cheers
Jon