OOP vs Procedural

maeltar · 01-14-2012, 03:50 AM

What are the advantages of using oop over procedural ?

Take the following function, and if I were to make this into a class (which I have no idea how to yet!) what would I gain ?

This is to find out the current week number for a company financial year, 4th April 2011 being week 1

PHP Code:


			
<?php



date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');



function longDate($uk_date, $sep){

    

    list($day, $month, $year) = explode($sep, $uk_date); 

$usdate = $month.'/'.$day.'/'.$year; 

return date("l, F jS, Y",strtotime($usdate));

    

    

}



function getCurrentWeek($type){

$week_secs = 604800;

// uk format dd/mm/yyyy

$week1 = '04/04/2011';



list($day, $month, $year) = explode('/', $week1);



$startFinYear = gmmktime(0,0,0,$month, $day, $year);



// current unix time

$currTime = strtotime('now');



$weekDiff = floor(($currTime - $startFinYear)/$week_secs);

$timeDiff = $currTime - $startFinYear;



$shortDate = date('d/m/Y', strtotime("+" . $weekDiff . " week",$startFinYear ));

$longDate = longDate(date('d/m/Y', strtotime("+" . $weekDiff . " week",$startFinYear )), '/');



switch($type){

    case 'short':

        return $shortDate;

        break;

    case 'long' :

        return $longDate;

        break;

    default:

        return $weekDiff;

        break;

    }





}



echo getCurrentWeek('') . "<br />";

echo getCurrentWeek('short') . "<br />";

echo getCurrentWeek('long') . "<br />";

?>