In continuing the series of their Introduction to Object-Oriented thinking articles, the Utah PHP Users Group has posted the third part in the series.

Object-oriented programming gives us many new ways to create an application. It makes many things easier to do. One of these things is planning. Planning is an important and oft overlooked part of an application, but it is as essential to the success of the application as the coding of it. Just to clear the air, let me clarify that planning is not necessarily spending months of sketching diagrams before a two week project. Neither is it coming up with things as you go. But planning is a great tool that will make applications more solid, easier to build, and quicker to build.

He talks about OOP with illustarations like a "four story lean-to" and examples of organization (such as Google) to promote the planning aspect of using an object-oriented approach. He rounds things off with talk of reuse (a *big* reason to go OOP), and finally, a reminder to just stop and think about your application before you get too far along...