Question

I have learned how to use classes in PHP and so far I have only really found one useful application for them. I created a user class to preform various tasks relating to users in my web application such as output the avatar, show number of messages ect.

Aside from this example, what are some other useful ways to utilize classes in a practical sense?

Answer 1

I use a database class all the time.

Here are a couple examples:

http://www.massless.org/_tests/phpdb/

http://slaout.linux62.org/php/index.html

http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/databaseobjects.html