Abstract
While for many languages object orientation is simply a matter of course, it took several years before such features were incorporated into PHP. Yet the early forays into adding object-oriented features to the language were considered by many to be a poor attempt at best. Although the very basic premises of object-oriented programming (OOP) were offered in version 4, several deficiencies exist, including the following:
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An unorthodox object-referencing methodology
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No means for setting the scope (public, private, protected, abstract) of fields and methods
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No standard convention for naming constructors
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Absence of object destructors
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Lack of an object-cloning feature
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Lack of support for interfaces
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© 2007 W. Jason Gilmore, Bob Bryla
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(2007). Object-Oriented PHP. In: Beginning PHP and Oracle. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0367-4_6
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