OOP: Instantiation
Instantiation, is another complex word meaning creating an object. DYK: At first PHP wasn’t a OOP language!
A CLASS is a package containing two things: data and methods. Methods are just functions within a class, they obviously change name to make it more complex.The data portion consists of variables; they’re known as properties. The other part of a class is a set of functions that can alter a class’ properties; they’re called methods.
Remember that Objects can be parents, and allow their children to access parts of its contents.This is called inheritance and is one of the major advantages of classes over functions
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