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PHP 5.4 Released
mikejuk writes "PHP 5.4 has been released, along with a new version of Zend Framework. It has a number of optimizations that make it faster and smaller (early estimates say 10-20% faster), a built-in webserver for testing purposes, and features that had been destined for PHP 6.0. The big addition from the now-crashed PHP 6.0 project is Traits, which are sort of a cross between a class and an interface, bringing some of the advantages of multiple inheritance to PHP. The full changelog and download page are both available."
Let's call it what it is, Anti-Social Media.
GOTO is perfectly fine in some situations. Using a technique badly doesn't make the technique bad itself. It's just stupid users.
Multiple inheritance is supported in some form or another in just about every OO language in existence. It's just that most prefer to restrict multiply-inherited traits to methods and call them "interfaces" instead of "base classes." IMO, that's entirely unnecessary. If I want an "interface" in C++, then I write a pure abstract class without any member variables and use it the same way I'd use an interface in Java. If I want true multiple inheritance in Java, I'm just out of luck. MI can be used in some very nasty ways, but if you tried to remove each and every feature that a programmer could possibly misuse from a language you'd pretty quickly find yourself with an insanely verbose toy language that no experienced developer would ever want to touch.
Telling us readers how it (the new PHP) measures up to the competition would have been better and more informative.
So, let me bite: How does this new release measure up to the competition?
What synchronicity! Just the other day I was thinking about the beautiful and elegant poetry that is PHP's syntax and standard library, and I was saying to myself, "You know... if there's one thing PHP needs, it's multiple inheritance."
Breakfast served all day!
well, it's PHP. And the competition is not PHP. So the competition wins.
The people who scream the loudest about how multiple inheritance or gotos are bad are the ones who also scream the loudest about "best practices", but in reality write some of the shittiest code there is.
Just look at Java and C#. The worst Java and C# developers are those who go on and on about design patterns. Then instead of writing software that solves real problems, they spend months and years putting together frameworks and obtuse architectures that are damn near impossible to use in practice.
Then there are the Ruby users. Basically everything they advocate is wrong. Maybe it lets you crank out yet another blog engine quickly, but what they propose falls apart completely for any moderately complex application. All it takes is debugging one problem caused by monkeypatching, and you'll immediately see how stupid their ideas are.
JavaScript "programmers" are the worst. Their language is so fucked up, but most of them are so ignorant that they can't see this for themselves. I mean, they didn't even manage to get equality comparisons implemented in a sensible manner! Yes, very core functionality like that is broken.
PHP has traditionally been just slightly better than JavaScript, in terms of developer stupidity, but at least they're making a small degree of progress in the right direction. We can't say the same for Ruby, though. In fact, we rarely hear about Ruby these days. The hype surrounding it sure has died down lately. This isn't completely unexpected. Consistent failures, like most sizable Ruby projects tend to be, can quickly kill even the loudest hype.
PHP has had some security issues, but they can largely be avoid. First, always use parameterized queries (prepared statements) using PDO or MySQLi. Register Globals, which was a big problem in the past has been removed in 5.4. Most of the security problems I'm aware of can be summed up in those two things. I think the reason it has such a bad reputation is that it has so many newbie developers on it, and because there are a lot of bad tutorials out there (possibly written by newbies) that show bad practices, such as not using parameterized queries.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
Here is my code from my login page in php 4 that is super secure
$query_login="select * FROM user"; //$login_check = mysql_num_rows($result_login);
$result_login = mysql_query($query_login) or die("Your passwrod is might be bad I think");
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result_login))
{
$username=$row["username"];
if ($username==$username1)
{
echo "";
echo "window.location.href='login_error.php?rec=qq';";
echo "";
exit;
}
}
http://saveie6.com/
If you want to get your code compatible, a start is to scan it automatically : https://github.com/wimg/PHPCompatibility - just released for 5.4 as well :-)
There's absolutely nothing wrong with goto. Just people who abused it and it got a bad reputation.
Let's call it what it is, Anti-Social Media.