http://www.akemapa.com/2008/05/16/php-procedural-vs-object-oriented-coding-style/ Fight for what you belive in Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:50:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.akemapa.com/2008/05/16/php-procedural-vs-object-oriented-coding-style/comment-page-1/#comment-1967 John Taggart Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:44:52 +0000 http://www.akemapa.com/2008/05/16/php-procedural-vs-object-oriented-coding-style/#comment-1967 Interesting. The post seems to be pretty biased towards the OO aproach (which is understandable, coming from a book about OO). The real answer is that there is no competition between the coding styles - procedural is best suited to certain programs, while OO is best suited to others. It cannot be said that one is simply better than the other. Procedural programming flows more naturally with the way PHP parses code, so code written procedurally tends to be faster and often smaller than OO code. However, as the post mentioned, procedural code can get very messy, and is not easy to document. Object oriented PHP is much better in this area, as it is infinitely more readable and understandable (if the reader knows OOP), which makes updating or adding new functionality to programs much easier. Interesting. The post seems to be pretty biased towards the OO aproach (which is understandable, coming from a book about OO). The real answer is that there is no competition between the coding styles – procedural is best suited to certain programs, while OO is best suited to others. It cannot be said that one is simply better than the other.
Procedural programming flows more naturally with the way PHP parses code, so code written procedurally tends to be faster and often smaller than OO code.
However, as the post mentioned, procedural code can get very messy, and is not easy to document. Object oriented PHP is much better in this area, as it is infinitely more readable and understandable (if the reader knows OOP), which makes updating or adding new functionality to programs much easier.

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