Question

I am building a team roster application. It takes a team class (this is a quick mockup not the actual class as my question does not pertain to it)

class Team {
    function __construct($teamName, $roster){
      $this->setName($teamName);
      $this->setRoster($roster);
     }

I didn’t include the set functions because this class is the foundation for my question. I want to add a section to comment on each person in the roster. Example:

$roster = array('Jim','Bob','Steve','Josh');
$team = new team('My Team', $roster);

I want each person on the team to have a section where someone can comment on them. Example:

My Team

• id:1 Jim – add comment
• id:2 Bob – add comment
  Bob needs to come to more practices – delete comment
• id:3 Steve – add comment
• id:4 Josh – add comment

My question is this; do I create a comment class and then create a new class for each person? I would think that this would be a bad idea if their where 100+ people. Or do I create functions in my team class to handle the commenting?

Answer 1

Yeah, I would create a “Team member” class and a “Comment” class. why would it be bad to instantiate 100 teamMembers? I might also create a “Roster” class if you ever find a roster is more than just a list of team members…