Chapter six in “PHP The Good Parts” (MacIntyre, Peter B. PHP: The Good Parts. USA: O’Reilly, 2010) is about PHP objects. We visited object-oriented programming back in my posts on the ASP.NET/C# “Magic Menu” where I discussed some behind-the-scenes on object-oriented (or “oo”) concepts.
This post will be about what I programmed after reading about PHP objects – a doodle web app which started out as a simple little combination of PHP oo programming and some HTML5 canvas and turned into a wild blend of PHP, HTML5, Javascript, jQuery, CSS, AJAX and XML. The final result could have probably been accomplished with less technologies, but in the end it was fun to try out some “extras” in combination with the PHP and HTML5 and learn about those as well. You could say the code is a bit of “doodle” itself! Or I may be getting carried away with the doodle metaphor – on to the doodling app and it’s doodles (but not oodles) of code!