This excerpt from PHP and MySQL Web Development outlines a key step in object-oriented PHP.

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PHP 3 was released in mid-1998. Some basic object-oriented (OO) capabilities were included, more or less as an afterthought, to "provide new ways of accessing arrays." 1 No significant changes were ...