Learning OOP through CI

[eluser]dmorin[/eluser]

CI is ALL OOP. So, if you fully understand CI, you should have no problem understanding OOP in PHP.

While this is true, it's also a little misleading. In CI, you can basically create huge controller methods in which case, it's just procedural coding within an oop method. Also, because of the loader, most people restrict their ideas to single library classes and just about any oop design pattern requires multiple classes as well as abstract classes or interfaces.

So while CI is OOP, it's very easy to use CI in a procedural way which makes for bloated controllers and less-maintainable code.