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copied!<p><strong>OOP is a methodology used to organise your code into meaningful, reusable entities and it doesn't alone answer to the question of "how to best organize your code to create web applications".</strong></p> <p>Most of the web frameworks use Model-View-Controller architecture (MVC) along with OOP. In order to understand how web frameworks work, I suggest you to familiarize yourself with MVC as well (for a starting point, see <a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/05/understanding-model-view-controller.html" rel="nofollow">"Coding Horror: Understanding Model-View-Controller"</a>)</p> <p>Also, regardless of any frameworks, it is crucial to understand some basic concepts when creating web applications. At the minimum, familiarize yourself with how sessions work (<a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.session.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.session.php</a>), as well as how you can access databases (<a href="http://php.net/manual/en/book.pdo.php" rel="nofollow">PDO</a> for generic database connectivity, <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/book.mysql.php" rel="nofollow">MySQL</a> for MySQL-specific binding, etc.). </p> <p>As for what web framework to choose, the options are plenty. Therefore consider the following pointers as informative:</p> <ul> <li>Yii Framework has a pretty clean OOP-based design (<a href="http://www.yiiframework.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.yiiframework.com/</a>)</li> <li>Another popular object-oriented PHP framework is CakePHP (<a href="http://cakephp.org/" rel="nofollow">http://cakephp.org/</a>)</li> <li>For a more light-weight framework with less overhead, consider CodeIgniter (<a href="http://codeigniter.com/" rel="nofollow">http://codeigniter.com/</a>)</li> <li>The <em>de facto</em> web framework for PHP is Zend (<a href="http://framework.zend.com/" rel="nofollow">http://framework.zend.com/</a>). Its huge, comprehensive, well-supported, but not always the perfect companion when travelling light.</li> <li>Also note that <em>if you organize your code according to MVC, you may find yourself most comfortable when not using any frameworks at all</em></li> </ul> <p>Also note that unlike in Java, in PHP object-oriented features have been slowly added during its versions 4 and 5. Therefore, many web frameworks designed for earlier versions of PHP may not provide you as cleanly object-oriented design as you might want. Therefore when choosing a framework, consider whether you opt-in for backward-compatibility (PHP4 support) or are you seeking for a clean, object-oriented design in the framework (mostly PHP5 required).</p>

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