php grew so fast in popularity, and now it has object oriented concepts involved. I've been using php for some 2 years, and i wonder if someone prefers to code in oop way or structred approach is widely accpeted and used?

__________________

oop was added in PHP 5, which was pre-released much earlier than you thought. there has been a lot og threads discussing such question you have.

Not so. Support for classes and objects has been present since PHP 3, released in 1998.

It was, of course, much improved in version 5.

oh. that was called object-based -- not object-oriented.

Microsoft told the world that VB6 is OOP but OOP programmers call it OBP simply because inheritance is not present in VB6 -- also in PHP3.

Call it what you like, object orientated programming is encapsulating functionality within objects.

PHP3 does support inheritance, btw.

i happen to retrieve a PHP3 manual from:
http://www.polytech.unice.fr/~buffa/.../td5/php/docs/

which states that, indeed, inheritance does exists in PHP3.

althought, one question still remains... WHAT was "IMPROVED" in PHP5?

once again, my memory failed me.

it was actually "polymorphism" which was not present in PHP3.

read this one:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/pdf/t1837.pdf