Comments on: stdClass is NOT the PHP Base Class!!! http://www.asgrim.com/2008/11/14/stdclass-is-not-the-php-base-class/ My blog, with PHP and babies and cooking and stuff... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:13:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: James http://www.asgrim.com/2008/11/14/stdclass-is-not-the-php-base-class/comment-page-1/#comment-1382 James Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:36:16 +0000 http://www.asgrim.com/?p=999#comment-1382 You can sort of emulate that structure as I posted about <a href="http://www.asgrim.com/2008/11/11/php-base-classes/" rel="nofollow">here</a> initially - by creating your own "superclass" and inheriting all your own custom objects from that. In the custom framework we program with at <a href="http://www.netbasic.co.uk/site/team/james.phtml" rel="nofollow">Netbasic</a>, this is the way it works, and the code is fully object orientated. We have things like debug functions we can turn on/off easily by just changing a bool in the root object and so on, it makes life pretty easy. You can sort of emulate that structure as I posted about here initially – by creating your own “superclass” and inheriting all your own custom objects from that. In the custom framework we program with at Netbasic, this is the way it works, and the code is fully object orientated. We have things like debug functions we can turn on/off easily by just changing a bool in the root object and so on, it makes life pretty easy.

]]> By: Jasper http://www.asgrim.com/2008/11/14/stdclass-is-not-the-php-base-class/comment-page-1/#comment-1381 Jasper Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:48:53 +0000 http://www.asgrim.com/?p=999#comment-1381 It never even occurred to me that stdClass would be PHP's root superclass! I've always used it in the way you did in the example - to create json objects easily. It would be nice if PHP did have a super class, as David said for things like type hinting, but I can live without that stuff. Just. It never even occurred to me that stdClass would be PHP’s root superclass! I’ve always used it in the way you did in the example – to create json objects easily. It would be nice if PHP did have a super class, as David said for things like type hinting, but I can live without that stuff. Just.

]]> By: James http://www.asgrim.com/2008/11/14/stdclass-is-not-the-php-base-class/comment-page-1/#comment-1378 James Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:29:26 +0000 http://www.asgrim.com/?p=999#comment-1378 I agree completely - the issue of course is that PHP was never OO until PHP 5 (lets be fair, PHP 4 OO was dire). Object orientation has been hacked into PHP, and despite being quite good, it's not a patch on fully OO languages like C++ or Java. I agree completely – the issue of course is that PHP was never OO until PHP 5 (lets be fair, PHP 4 OO was dire). Object orientation has been hacked into PHP, and despite being quite good, it’s not a patch on fully OO languages like C++ or Java.

]]> By: David http://www.asgrim.com/2008/11/14/stdclass-is-not-the-php-base-class/comment-page-1/#comment-1377 David Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:13:18 +0000 http://www.asgrim.com/?p=999#comment-1377 What annoyed me is that it's a reasonable assumption that's being undermined by language perversity. Every other modern language with a decent object system has a root superclass, after all. I thought that was how it worked in PHP until I tried to use stdClass for type hinting. What annoyed me is that it’s a reasonable assumption that’s being undermined by language perversity. Every other modern language with a decent object system has a root superclass, after all.

I thought that was how it worked in PHP until I tried to use stdClass for type hinting.

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