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What are you most looking forward to in PHP6?
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 2:18 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Just curious where the general feeling is in this? I'm guessing it's going to be the native unicode support but for myself at least, I'm most looking forward to seeing how namespaces work with PHP
Also, who's using PHP4 right now and not 5, and of those who will be moving to PHP6?
Essentially I'm wondering how much interest there is in it's release.
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 2:20 pm
by alex.barylski
Interest...is high...practicality is low...
All my shared hosts still use 4.3.2 or was that 4.2.3??

Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 2:49 pm
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
I'm with Hockey. I work on several open source projects and we gave up writing for PHP5. Too long a wait for it to be adopted. I would seriously love to convert my projects to PHP5, even more so to PHP6 (UNICODE!!!) but until shared hosts catch up I'd only be forcing users into a limited number of hosting options. For the moment PHP5 only gets used for private stuff - sniff...
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 3:19 pm
by RobertGonzalez
PHP4 on all my shared hosting accounts because the hosting companies are afraid to update. I am using PHP4 on my dedicated server because after my MySQL server update fiasco I am afraid I will kill my server or myself if I try another upgrade.
I would go to PHP5 in a heartbeat if I could get it working on my DS.
Mostly I am looking forward to all of the things that could cause problems in a default install now being defaulted to a smarter way in the release (register_globals, long arrays, etc). As I progress in my quest for ultimate geekdom I am sure I will get more interested in namespaces and unicode support.

Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 3:38 pm
by Buddha443556
Hard to get interested in PHP6 when your using PHP4. [Like Hockey said.] I'll see PHP5 running side-by-side PHP4 this summer. One host doesn't change a thing though. PHP5 needs to been much more common in shared hosting before I use its new features. Don't expect to see PHP6 for
years.
Haven't heard of anything in PHP5 or PHP6 that will really change my use of PHP. Unicode, namespace or an opcode cache that I'll never see used on a shared server (barring a hardware miracle, of course)? Nah. [They got namespace working in PHP6?]
Mostly I am looking forward to all of the things that could cause problems ...
KaChing!
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 4:16 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Buddha443556 wrote:[They got namespace working in PHP6?]
Last I checked a few months ago they didn't have it in CVS. I'll pull a CVS snapshot some time tomorrow and see what's changed since I last checked. Unicode was implemented I think last time and a few legacy things had disappeared.
EDIT | Namespaces could be *very* useful in public projects that need to integrate with an existing application.
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 4:35 pm
by feyd
loss of cruft and ereg, sometimes one in the same.
