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“To be, or not to be:  that is the question:” is the memorable quote from Shakespeare’s Hamlet played in the 1600s. Programmers, today, have a similar dilemma.

When should a programming framework be used?

This takes me back many years to ‘Microprocessors 101’ course in my undergraduate studies. I quite distinctly remember our Professor telling us “Please do not use the Microprocessor to ring the door bell”. This simple and humorous statement carried a profound meaning. For everything there was a purpose. Just because it sounds cool does not mean that you have to use it.

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Following the introduction of PHP 5, in 2004, PHP is a worthy description of the object model and transformed into modern language for network use. Earlier PHP scripts would have been of the kind where, to quote from Alice’s Adventures, you would “Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” Today, this approach is much more common procedure for PHP, this article collects some of tutorials of object-oriented data and it’s implementation in PHP.

OOP (Object Oriented Programming) allows us to architect our systems much more clearly and make them more manageable and easier to maintain. The technique also allows to separate form from function to establish a database of codes, clean navigation with many opportunities for reuse of code, apply design patterns and bring in concepts from other brances of computer science.

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In this tutorial We will create realtime chart data update that reflect to price fluctuation. There are many solutions to do this, but now we will cover using a nice flash charting component called FusionCharts. FusionCharts comes with several edition, but now we will use the FusionCharts Free version. You can download it  fromhttp://www.fusioncharts.com/free/. By the time of this writing, FusionCharts Free version is 2.2.

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