Object-Oriented Programming with PHP
Luis Argerich, Wankyu Choi, John M. Coggeshall, Ken Egervari, Martin Geisler, Zak Greant, Andrew Hill, Chris Hubbard, J. Mike Moore, Devon H. O'Dell, Jon Parise, Harish Singh Rawat, Tarique Sani, Christopher Scollo, Deepak Thomas, Chris Ullman · Apress eBooks · 2003
Object-oriented programming (OOP) has been around for quite some time. It began with Smalltalk and C++, and later on expanded to languages such as Java and Python. When it comes to building software applications, such as your favorite word processor or computer game, it’s no longer an optional language feature. It is the standard way for software architects to develop highly maintainable, complex, and scalable solutions used in both proprietary and open source software packages. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.