I wanted to go down the OOP route initially. Then I decided against it for a number of reasons. Here's a breakdown of that reasoning... http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/zrprk/the_new_secure_pa...

Additionally, the general drift hasn't been towards OOP within PHP. Some OOP libraries are being added, but the core remains largely procedural (and doesn't appear to be shifting significantly yet). It's taking the (very logical IMHO) route of "Does this make sense to be OOP". If the answer is yes, then it goes in as a class structure. If not, it goes in procedurally.

I did not feel it made sense to make this a class, and as such I did not...