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    <p>Recently, I took it upon myself to try and learn OO programming. It has been about 3 months since I started, but I think I might be <em>missing the point</em> because I seem to prefer static methods (which seem 'easier' to me).</p> <p>Example</p> <p>Here is what a typical DB query looks like in my code.</p> <pre><code>$bindings = array(':name'=&gt;$articleName); Db::query('SELECT id, name, title, image, content FROM ' . CONFIG_MYSQL_TABLE_PREFIX . 'articles WHERE name = :name LIMIT 1', $bindings); </code></pre> <p>And here is how I resize/crop/cache images</p> <pre><code>$image = Img::thumbnail($imagePath, 200); $imgHtml = '&lt;img alt="' . $this-&gt;getTitle() . '" src="' . '' . $image['src'] . '" width="' . $image['width'] . '" height="' . $image['height'] . '" /&gt;'; </code></pre> <p>Both of the static methods utilise a singleton pattern.. the first one creates one PDO object and the second one creates one ImageResize class I found on Google code.</p> <p>Should these be 2 objects if I really wanted to call it object oriented programming? i.e.</p> <pre><code>$db = new Db(); $image = new Image($src, $width, $height); </code></pre> <p>For everytime I use them? I've read singletons are also a bad idea unless they're being used for logging to a file. But isn't a singleton good for one DB connection being opened when needed and closed only after it's been used and finished with?</p> <p>My question is, am I still stuck in the procedural mindset, and if so, is what I'm doing considered bad practise? How can I immerse myself in the correct OO thought patterns?</p> <h2>Update</h2> <p>Thanks for the answers. I do find the original methods I'm doing are <em>easier</em> as I have to type less code and let the static methods worry about little implementation things.</p> <p>I will look into another language to get a solid grasp of OO, which language though will be another question itself.</p>
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