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Object Oriented vs Procedural (Opinionated)
Hey all. I am working on updating my work from the depreciated mysql_ to the mysqli_ and see the 2 styles being defined. I'm used to the Procedural style, but was wondering what everyone's opinion was with maybe switching to the Object Oriented style as well while updating myself to the mysqli_...
Last edited by Triple_Nothing : December 3rd, 2012 at 12:48 PM.
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Hi,
it depends on your application. If it's object oriented, use the object oriented API. Otherwise use the procedural API.
None of them is "better" than the other. Calling $db->query() instead of mysqli_query() doesn't make your application "more modern" or "cleaner". The different APIs just account for that fact that there are different programming paradigms in PHP.
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