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An Early Look At What's Coming In PHP V6

Posted by timothy on from the press-harder-please dept.

IndioMan writes "In this article, learn about the new PHP V6 features in detail. Learn how it is easier to use, more secure, and more suitable for internationalization. New PHP V6 features include improved support for Unicode, clean-up of several functions, improved extensions, engine additions, changes to OO functions, and PHP additions." Update — May 7th at 16:47 GMT by SS: IBM seems to have removed the article linked in the summary. Here's a different yet related article about the future of PHP, but it's a year old.

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  1. So... by msh104 · · Score: 4, Informative

    without wanting to be overly sarcastic..

    What features are they gonne break this time?

    1. Re:So... by msh104 · · Score: 4, Informative

      At my work we host and have build and maintain a little over 200 php websites. We host them all ourselves. ( the CMS that we use is build in PHP )

      We earn money from both the hosting and the developing.

      Many of our customers don't want to pay for the porting of their websites to PHP5, let alone PHP6. usually this requires upgrading the CMS as well, making modifications to custom extentions written by outsourcing partys, etc. All in all quite expensive for the site owner.

      "Threatening" them with PHP4 server shutdowns only makes them go away to other hosting providers that will over PHP4 to them.

      So we ended up virtualising all the PHP4 sites together with a good backup system and making our customers understand that we provide no warrenty anymore. We will help them when things blow up on an paid per hour basis.

      Another problem is that we cannot reuse a lot of our code anymore now. Many of our new plugins require php5 so we have to modify them to make them php4 compatible again.

      when php6 comes out we will have to support three different php versions... the horrors of that vision already scare me today..

  2. Re:question: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes :(

  3. Re:One of these things is not like the OOthers by ABasketOfPups · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or...

    PHP:
    $myarray[] = $myvalue;

  4. Broken Link in Summary by Udigs · · Score: 5, Informative

    here's the correct one: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-future/