PHP: 20 Lessons to Successful Web Development

Manipulating Objects

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PHP is so much more than simply a scripting language because it also offers the power and flexibility of object-oriented programming (OOP). This is a style of programming in which the data used by a program, and the code to manipulate it, are all provided together in bundles called objects.

   For example, a standard (or procedural) programming language will treat data and code as two separate entities, although some steps toward using ...