[thelist] To class or not to class in PHP
Stephen Rider
evolt_org at striderweb.com
Wed Dec 26 16:19:40 CST 2007
Hi all --
I do a decent amount of work on plugins and add-ons for the open-
source WordPress. When working on a program that has so many "cooks",
and that can have any number of third-party add-ons at any given
time, I've been told that it's a smart idea to avoid function name
conflicts in PHP by wrapping functions in a class, like so:
class myuniqueclassname {
function function1() {...}
function function2() {...}
}
...and calling them this way:
myuniqueclassname::function1();
So the question to the PHP gurus out there: is this a good idea or am
I better off just prefacing my functions with something like...
function myplugin_function1() {...}
...and so forth?
Is wrapping code in a class more "expensive" in terms of execution
and memory? are there other issues I should know about?
Any advice appreciated.
Regards,
Stephen
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