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Changes In Store For PHP V6

Posted by kdawson on from the ready-or-not dept.

An anonymous reader sends in an IBM DeveloperWorks article detailing the changes coming in PHP V6 — from namespaces, to Web 2.0 built-ins, to a few features that are being removed.

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  1. Quick summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... for those too lazy to RTFA:
    Additions:
    Better Unicode support
    Namespaces! (this is being backported to PHP 5.3)
    SOAP and the XML Writer/Reader modules compiled in and enabled by default (also in PHP 5.3)
    Removals:
    magic_quotes, register_globals, register_long_arrays, safe_mode
    ASP-style short tags ()
    Freetype1/GD1 support
    ereg (use of preg encouraged instead).