Servage Magazine

In this recent article I discussed the usage of PHP convenience functions in a class based, object oriented environment. Thanks to some great feedback from Rick Hambrook, I have revised the example, so it fits Rick’s suggestion. This implementation essentially gives the same functionality and usability, but wraps the convenience functions in a nice class. It looks better, and makes it easier to implement in other projects as well.

<?
// Conv class (Convenience function collection)
class Conv {
  // Timestamp method
  function timestamp($time = false) {
    if(!$time) {
      $time = time();
    }
    return date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $time);
  }
}
?>

Now you have a class with convenience functions that can be easily utilized across your application with:

Conv::timestamp();

If you have many convenience functions, bundling them according to Rick’s suggestions is a good idea.
Have fun coding!