Introduction to PHP5

Yet Another OO Fanatic writes "PHP core developer Sterling Hughes has a excellent presentation (mirror) about PHP5 online. So far it seems to be the best coverage of the new features in PHP5; highlights include the new object model, namespaces, interfaces, access control and exceptions. Java by any other name..."

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PHP5

[Anonymous Coward]

What about PHP 9.0?

OoOoO

[natew]

OO!! oOOooOOo!! OOO!! PHP5!

PHP 5

[ethx1]

There is PHP 5!!!! Nooooo.....

Jesus God and The USA FP!!

[Anonymous Coward]

FP :) praise the powers that be!

php sucks

[Anonymous Coward]

perl rocks! Troll post #1

PHP 5

[Anonymous Coward]

Able to crash faster, harder.

yikes!

[Telastyn]

0 posts, and already slashdotted? the subscribers must've gotten to that one early!

And what's with the java comment, PHP is pretty much nothing like java. It has different uses, different strengths, and different semmantics. When are they going to properly fix PHP like making it stable? (*gasp*)

Java by any other name...

[Anonymous Coward]

still reeks.

Debian packages avalible

[Anonymous Coward]

apt-get install php5

OO idiot

[MagPulse]

Maybe to a "programmer" who types code without thinking about those scary compilers, interpreters, and *gasp* actual hardware, PHP5 could be considered something in the same hemisphere as Java.

Who cares?

[insecuritiez]

PHP 4 and previous versions taught most of us that if you run it even a 13-year-old script-kiddy can 0wn your site. New version, new features aside, PHP can't catch on much more than it has until more of the holes in it's implementation are patched. Would any of us buy a fancy car without locks? PHP is much the same, really nice to use but without security is it worth it?

PHP Sucks

[bellings]

PHP is crap. It's essentially just like ASP, except unlike ASP you're:

• locked into a language worse than VBScript,
• locked into an extension model worse than ActiveX,
• have a database interface a billion times worse than ADO (for example, the standard PHP MySQL interface has no paramatarized queries!!! Who's the supergenius who thought that up?), and
• lack almost all the functions, procedures, methods, or objects that would make web programming useful.

For a few glaring examples where PHP doesn't give you even the most basic requirements for first-generation web language, there's no equivilant to ASP's Response.Redirect(). There's no equivilant to ASP's Server.MapPath(). The handling of forms with multiple fields of the same name (like checkboxes) is so hideously broken I don't know if I should laugh or cry.

I want to avoid saying that most PHP sites are amazingly insecure. Certainly, this must be a function of the pathetic losers who use PHP, instead of some function of the language. But after spending even a week on BugTraq, one begins to wonder exactly what most PHP developers are smoking when they write sites.

In short, I think PHP sucks. It's little suprise to me that the editors on this site find it so endearing.

STILL NOT AS GOOD AS PERL

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah yeah PHP 5 - but who cares, PHP will never be as good as Perl! hell Perl is on version 6 now, it is atleast 1 times as good as php 5.

this thread is full of assholes

[Anonymous Coward]

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