I was a PHP programmer between 1999 and 2008 (and have dabbled in it since then), and I never quite figured out what OO PHP was good for, other than writing you

I was a PHP programmer between 1999 and 2008 (and have dabbled in it since then), and I never quite figured out what OO PHP was good for, other than writing your own half-baked database wrapper. If you're using OO PHP for basic web apps it will probably be in the form of someone else's more-fully-baked database wrapper (CodeIgniter, CakePHP, etc.) but you don't actually need to know much OOP to use them.