It sounds to me like you are using OO code with a procedural model. For example, why would a User know how to handle cookies and deal with sessions? That would involve the User class knowing a bunch of stuff about your application and data storage that probably belong elsewhere, maybe in some kind of generic web framework code.

A more standard design for the kind of thing you seem to be doing would be to have your User class just model a user and the things that a user can do, with a separate class like UserManager that performs operations involving User objects. Registering a User should not change the basic identity of the User.

It sounds like you are kind of heading this way already. I would encourage to continue with that, and to read some stuff about OO modeling. In general, things that a user can do belong in the User class, while things your application can do with a user belong somewhere else.

In reply to Re: Class Questions, OOP, and mod_perl -- HELP by perrin
in thread Class Questions, OOP, and mod_perl -- HELP by nmerriweather

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