Object Oriented Programming in PHP5

The purpose of this PDF tutorial is to provide a basic guide for student interested in Object Oriented Programming in PHP5 to build a dynamic web application.

Table of contents

• Basic PHP Constructs for OOP
• Advanced OOP Features
• Public, Private, and Protected Members
• Polymorphism in PHP5
• Abstract Classes
• Simulating class functions
• Calling parent functions
• Calling parent constructors
• The special name parent
• Introspection Functions
• OOP Style in PHP
• Indenting, whitespace, and line length
• Formatting control structures
• Properties and methods of a class
• Function definitions inside an abstract class
• Formatting functions and function calls
• Single inheritance
• Multiple inheritance
• Function definitions in subclasses