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In this example why does the procedural way fail with this error: Error: Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc() expects parameter 1 to be resource, object given in /Users/joel/Sites/people_test/public_html/index.php on line 14 PHP: $dbc = @mysqli_connect (DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME) OR die ('Could not connect to MySQL: ' . mysqli_connect_error() ); $q = "SELECT first_name, last_name FROM person LIMIT 0,30"; $r = mysqli_query($dbc, $q); Procedural: while($data = mysql_fetch_assoc($r)) { $rows[] = $data; } //prints out null echo json_encode($rows); OOP: while($data = $r-&
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version 0.5 Page 129 As I read this book, I keep scratching my head, wondering what's so good about OOP (Object Oriented Programming). The clips example is a case in point. Why write 5 lines of code when you can write just 2, like this? $stockQuote = 'AAPL: $533.25'; echo $stockQuote; I can modularize my procedural code by using includes. So how can all the fuss and bother of OOP be worthwhile? I've read plenty of rationales defending OOP, written by people who studied it in college, but it seems more like a religion to me. Sorry, I don't mean to offend anyone. I've re
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Hello Larry, Thank you for all your help, I learned many things reading your books and now I am back to the desk for learning after many hours of producing. You were right that a programmer may have a very nice life doing procedural programming and I have to say that I finished a quite big project and I didn't mind 'repeating myself' as in fact was not that bad, put things in functions and the repeating part was rather easy: copy/paste and changing a few things. I like the fact that I can keep things separate, HTML, SQL, PHP, CSS. Anyway... I've got so used with your way and the patterns I