Php Class For Beginners. Question Will Be Treated With High Priority.

Jokes aside, I am happy that I now have a better understanding of what you are looking for and that my suggestions have helped. 

No, I don't work in a software development firm per se (I mean, let's face it, don't let anyone tell you that as a web developer you aren't developing software cos u r, albeit for the web ).  I work on a corporate website and we use JSP.  So rather than wear many hats at the same time, I would rather wear the hat that fits the occasion if you know what I mean.

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The problem is filePic - you are not capturing it in your script.  If you are, then I missed it.

Again, you need to write the code that creates the directory where the images will be stored.  This you will do by getting the value of filePic, creating a directory and then storing filePic's value (the uploaded image) into that directory.

Make sense?

he he, you aren't wearing me out.  If you were, I wouldn't even respond 

The directory in the "browse" textfield is a "dummy" directory.   The only thing that is "extracted" from that textfield is the last item - whatever it is that you are uploading.  The PHP script then creates a directory and adds what you are downloading to that directory.  The directory in the "browse" textfield is just for the script to know where to go to copy the image.

e nu go?

I believe enough people are learning here wit dis. please bring more.

@yawa, everyone thanks

@ruudie, u almost there.

tried and failed again. . .  this getting depressing!

hey. . . .  could it be because the form is pointing to a script on another page i mean its not a self-referencing form. . . . .

dont get depressed, like yawaytide said "Coding is serious business, "

jus try out d other steps, there's no victory in trying and failing, victory comes when u succeed.

so far, yawatide's steps are dbest for you so don't loose focus.
yes, we solidly behind u.

Thanks Quadrillo, even my untrained eye can see its a darn good script. . .  but my computer must have massive issues with finding "paths."

I used your code - exactly as it is but guess what I get a frigging parse error right here 
I just don't get it. . . .  i created the folder "files" folder inside the folder where all the other pages are!? Can you think of anything i might have gotten wrong?

@ quadrillo,

hey man,  plenty thanx. the script worked - found the error i'd made that stopped it from working right.

but i still have cannot input those values into my database - please help me review the codes i posted earlier abeg!

thanks quadri 4 d class. Pls i want 2 learn web design and development. Lets discuss my mail is abey232000@hotmail.com

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next in d class,we'll be introducing ourselves to OOP in PHP

OOP meaning, Object Oriented Programming

where we'll also learn about d different types of Design patterns and others.

- Safe

Object-Oriented PHP
PHP can, if you want, be written in an object-oriented (OO) fashion. In PHP5 & 6, the OO functionality of the language has been enhanced considerably.

If you are familiar with other OO languages, such as C++ or Java, you may prefer the OO approach to programming PHP, whereas if you are used to other procedural languages, you may not want to use objects at all. There are, after all, many ways to solve the same problem.

If you are new to programming as well as to PHP, you probably have no strong feelings either way just yet. It's certainly true that OO concepts are easier to grasp.

The aim of this lesson is to introduce how a class is created and referenced in PHP so that if you have a preference for using objects, you can begin to develop scripts by using OO methods. Most importantly, however, you will be able to pick up and use some of the many freely available third-party class libraries that are available for PHP from resources such as those at phpclasses


What Is a Class?
A class is the template structure that defines an object. It can contain functionsalso known as class methodsand variablesalso known as class properties or attributes.

Each class consists of a set of PHP statements that define how to perform a task or set of tasks that you want to repeat frequently. The class can contain private methods, which are only used internally to perform the class's functions, and public methods, which you can use to interface with the class.

A good class hides its inner workings and includes only the public methods that are required to provide a simple interface to its functionality. If you bundle complex blocks of programming into a class, any script that uses that class does not need to worry about exactly how a particular operation is performed. All that is required is knowledge of the class's public methods.

Because there are many freely available third-party classes for PHP, in many situations, you need not waste time implementing a feature in PHP that is already freely available.

When to Use Classes
At first, there may not appear to be any real advantage in using a class over using functions that have been modularized into an include file. OO is not necessarily a better approach to programming; rather, it is a different way of thinking. Whether you choose to develop your own classes is a matter of preference.

One of the advantages of OO programming is that it can allow your code to scale into very large projects easily. In OO programming, a class can inherit the properties of another and extend it; this means that functionality that has already been developed can be reused and adapted to fit a particular situation. This is called inheritance, and it is a key feature of OO development.

When you have completed this book, if you are interested in learning more about OO programming, take a look at Sams Teach Yourself Object-Oriented Programming in 21 Days by Anthony Sintes.

What a Class Looks Like
A class is a grouping of various functions and variablesand that is exactly how it looks when written in PHP. A class definition looks very similar to a function definition; it begins with the keyword class and an identifier, followed by the class definition, contained in a pair of curly brackets ({}).

The following is a trivial example of a class to show how a class looks. This example contains just one property, myValue, and one method, myMethod (which does nothing):

class myClass {
  var $myValue;

  function myMethod() {
    return 0;
  }
}