Improving my object oriented design skills
I’m very interested in building web applications at the moment. I’ve been learning PHP on and off for about 3 or 4 years, but have really got into it over the last 6 months. I’ve probably learned more over the last 6 months, than in the previous 24 months.
I’m getting proficient. With help from forums, mailing lists, and tutorials I can code most things. However, building things is easy, it’s building them correctly which is the hard part. I’ve got a number of programming books, and object oriented design is mentioned in all of them as a way to write efficient code. So, I thought that getting to grips with PHP’s object oriented features would be the next logical step on my journey to becoming a better PHP programmer.
My code gets messy, and harder to maintain as I add lines, and lines of code to it. An application really does become a pain in the backside when changing one line of code breaks another.
To hopefully improve my coding skills, I’ve ordered a new book: PHP Objects, Patterns & Practise. As I’m sure you’ll glean from the title, it’s all about object oriented design. It’s got many good reviews on both Amazon UK, and Amazon.com, so I hope it’s going to be a hit with me. 
It should hopefully turn me into a much more efficient programmer.
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