A sum-up of the OOP in PHP tutorials

This is the last post in our 3-part tutorial to OOP in PHP. In the previous posts we've created our Seed, which was used by our Tree class to grow. In this post, we are going to create our Garden class. This class will receive a Seed, plant it, and generate us with a series of new trees to choose from.

In the previous posts we've outlined our project and created a Seed interface and class. In this post we will be creating our Tree class, which will be using the GD library to generate images

I came up with this exercise when trying to teach OOP to a friend. We ended up creating a very nice app. One of the things I like about it, other than it being cool, is that it will require almost no use of a browser, and that means that we can focus just on plain PHP. It is based on a program described in the book "The Blind Watch Maker".

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm that uses "objects" – data structures consisting of data fields and methods together with their interactions – to design applications and computer programs. This is a first post introducing the tool PHP provides for OOP