The Utah PHP User's group has this new posting that's part one of a five-part series in an introduction to object-oriented programming.

An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming will give a brief overview of why there is such a thing as object-oriented programming. Conceptualizing Systems will help us to better picture a system in terms of objects and how the relate to each other. Planning an Application will teach us the importance of planning and what we should do to plan.

Creating Objects explains how the objects in our application are born, and how they should be structured. Making Objects Reusable covers some more advanced topics and allows us to reuse what we’ve already created in good ways. My hope is that these Monday morning articles will help others through the transition from procedural programming to object-oriented programming.

He covers topics like: "Why Does Object-Oriented Programming Exist?", "What Does Object-Oriented Programming Allow Us To Do?", and "So What Is Object-Oriented Programming?". I think these articles will be a great resource for anyone looking to get into OOP in PHP, as well as provide a good base for "good OOP design" versus just slapping classes together...