Hello All!

[youtnodknoem]

I thought it'd be polite to introduce myself before I started bugging all the forum veterans about my Newbie PHP/mySQL questions ;)

So, yeah, I'm youtnodknoem, a third year computer science student living in California with aspirations of entrepreneurship (I want to create a webstore from scratch) So I'll probably be frequenting these forums in the coming month. I'm pretty much a complete noob when it comes to PHP and mySQL but from what I've seen PHP should be pretty similar to other OOP languages i've studied. Anyways, I hope you guys will bear with me if I ask stupid questions! :) In any case its great to be here, and i hope eventually I'll be helping people too.

[NogDog]

...So I'll probably be frequenting these forums in the coming month....
Just one month? :p
I'm pretty much a complete noob when it comes to PHP and mySQL but from what I've seen PHP should be pretty similar to other OOP languages i've studied....
Although unlike some other OOP languages, PHP will let you do things without ever defining a single class or instantiating one object, should you so desire. ;)

[youtnodknoem]

Bahaha, my apologies, I meant coming months! And yeah, I guess I just proved my ignorance with that assumption about PHP. But hey, all I've been doing so far is initiating mysql queries and printing tables with while loops, so I havent explored all there is about PHP.

Haha, yes, I'm excited.

[NogDog]

Don't get me wrong: I'm all for object-oriented PHP, but due to its origin as a procedural language with realistic OOP support only since PHP5, there are (a) a lot of legacy scripts out there with no objects, and (b) a lot of PHP coders out there who have little to no experience wih OOP. Your prior OOP experience should be nothing but a bonus to your integration of PHP into your programming arsenal.

[Weedpacket]

That just reminded me of a line in the manual (http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.object-comparison.php):
In PHP 5, object comparison is more complicated than in PHP 4 and more in accordance to what one will expect from an Object Oriented Language (not that PHP 5 is such a language).