How do i get out of the habit of procedural programming and into object oriented programming?

Question

I\'m hoping to get some tips to kinda help me break out of what i consider after all these years a bad habit of procedural programming. Every time i attempt to do a project

Answer 1

For me the ah-ha moment of OOP was the first time I looked at code and realised I could refactor common stuff into a base class. You clearly know your way around code and re-use, but you need to think around classes not procedures. With user authentication it's clear you're going to have a username and password, now they go into the base class, but what if you need a tokenId as well, re-use your existing login base class, and create a new subclass from that with the new behaviour, all your existing code works without change.

See how that works for you.

Answer 2

Simply practice. If you've read everything about OOP and you know something about OOP and you know the OOP principals implemented in your language PHP... then just practice, practice and practice some more.

Now, don't go viewing OOP as the hammer and everything else as the nail, but do try to incorporate at least one class in a project. Then see if you can reuse it in another project etc..