In the first part of a new article series on PHP 5 classes and objects, Dennis Pallett introduces you to the basic concepts of using classes, the constructor and destructor methods and class inheritance. According to Dennis, with version 5 of PHP, objects have started to play a larger role, although PHP4 had adequate support for objects.

If you don't know much about classes and objects, this article aims to help you. Dennis takes you through the basics of classes and objects, and discusses every feature of classes in PHP 5. He starts the article with the basics and goes on to show how to use classes, through detailed code and examples.