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Going Dynamic with PHP

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-the-bastard-child-of-languages-anymore dept.

Five-Oh writes to tell us that IBM DeveloperWorks has an interesting article about the OO advantages of PHP V's new features. From the article: "PHP V5's new object-oriented programming features have raised the level of functionality in this popular language significantly. Learn how to use the dynamic features of PHP V5 to create objects that bend to fit your needs."

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  1. PHP's Comeupance by (1+-sqrt(5))*(2**-1) · · Score: 5, Informative
    I rediscovered PHP last week after a year-long hiatus, and was surpised to find that it approacheth Java in reflection and information hiding; that said, there are some lamentable lacunæ:
    • Class constants must be string literals and only string literals (no variables, arrays or objects).
    • Type-hinting is confined to arrays and objects (feature?).
    The unadorned output of phpDocumentor, PHP's analog to JavaDoc, is also suboptimal; for documenting PHP, therefore, go Doxygen.
  2. Re:PHP 4 V. 5 by lbft · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's a good summary on Zend: http://www.zend.com/php5/andi-book-excerpt.php

    Basically, PHP 5 adds proper object support (think Java-style) including iterators for objects, and new extensions add good XML support, SOAP, SQLite, better MySQL support (prepared statements, OO interface, etc.)

    I'd recommend reading Adam Trachtenberg's book Upgrading to PHP 5 if you're familiar with PHP 4.