PHP5 OOP Tutorial or examples

Question

Hello, I am currently trying to get my head around OOP in PHP, I understand the basic concepts etc. Up to this I have been working for tutorials and books. What I am looking for is some good tutorials that use real examples [ie make a functioning application] or a simple well written application [with source code] so I can look through the source and see how it works.

I understand that there are 1,00's of tutorials and application out there, but all the tutorial I can find and either theoretical or too basic, and the open source app I have looked at are too complicated.

Any advise/suggestions would be great Thanks in advance.

PS. for bonus points, I have a site that is current in need of an upgrade, it is a small event listing for a theater, [showing detail/info for event from a mysql db]

Ideally I would like to write this using OOP as a test, so any tutorial/example along these line would be great !

UPDATE

Basically I am looking for a tutorial that show how to build an event listing app in OO php, or a event listing app [again in OO php] which I can examine and rework the code.

Not links to wikipeadia etc.

Answer 1

i would recommend http://php.net/, this is like phpland in the net, and for OOP and Design Patterns, stuff like that, i recommend wikipedia, also SOLID Principles http://www.lostechies.com/, there many other usefull stuff to learn there (design patterns also)

Answer 2

Blog are very essential for building your skills.

Try:

• http://net.tutsplus.com/
• http://phpjoint.com/blog/

I could also send you an ebook with real world examples, by email if you are interested.

Answer 3

Howdy,

i've dont my first steps with PHP5 + OOP with one Tutorial:

PHP5 and OOP