PHP Advanced and Object-Oriented Programming: Visual Quickpro Guide, Third Edition

8. Using Existing Classes

In This Chapter

Catching Exceptions

Extending the Exception Class

Using PDO

Using the Standard PHP Library

Review and Pursue

The preceding four chapters discuss object-oriented programming, discussing both syntax and theory. The majority of the examples in those chapters tend to be as much demonstrative as practical (e.g., the Rectangle, Square, Shape, and Triangle classes are useful, but only if you’re doing geometric work). Philosophical examples are best for teaching OOP, I believe, but real-world object-oriented programming hammers the points home. And nothing best demonstrates real-world OOP than using some of the many existing classes created by other developers.

All of the examples in this chapter are based ...