Question

I am writing a new website that uses PHP and MySQL. I am trying to do this using OO and would welcome a bit of advice.

I know that I should structure the class as follows but what I am not sure about is whether I should create separate methods for accessing the database to insert, update etc. the name.

Does it matter? Should I have separate methods or can I just roll the code into set_name and get_name?

<?php  

class person { 

 var $name;  

  function set_name($new_name) {  

  $this->name = $new_name;   

 } 

 function get_name() { 

  return $this->name;  
 }  

}  
?> 

Answer 1

You might be interested in Object-relation-mapping and/or specifically the Active Record Pattern as a starter. See also this example for a implementation.