Switching to PHP 5

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Switching to PHP 5

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I am finally switching to PHP 5. :D :D What are some cool things I can look forward to in 5?
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Exceptions! And all the call OOP stuff of course.
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everything!
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:I am finally switching to PHP 5. :D :D What are some cool things I can look forward to in 5?
You didn't really need a thread 8)

In any case:

Access Control
Destructors
More Magic Methods
Reflection
Interfaces
No need to use the reference operator in object passing
Better static property handling
A handful of new functions

Hmmm... that's just off the top of my head :)

EDIT | You just reminded me to pull a PHP6 snapshot from CVS. Haven't looked since about january.... I wonder how complete Unicode support is now.
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:I am finally switching to PHP 5. :D :D What are some cool things I can look forward to in 5?
All the hot chicks that'll look at you when you walk into the room and say 'Oooh, he uses PHP5, we should go talk to him'. I heard that chicks dig a guy that codes PHP5.
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Chicks dig me at parties and I code PHP5. Coincidence? I think not. :D
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I was at the river yesterday with my girl and I was talking to somebody who asked where I worked.. so I told them and then this other guy kept asking me if I knew mysql? What about php? what about asp? and I was sitting there like dude... It's my day off. Leave alone with all this crap. Some people!! :evil:
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I found this article that clearly outlines the new features:

http://www.zend.com/php5/articles/engin ... hanges.php
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There has also been a bunch of little fixes to many of the new and old features to make them actually work -- especially in 5.12. It almost seems like everything that is in the language finally does everything it should.
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:I was at the river yesterday with my girl and I was talking to somebody who asked where I worked.. so I told them and then this other guy kept asking me if I knew mysql? What about php? what about asp? and I was sitting there like dude... It's my day off. Leave alone with all this crap. Some people!! :evil:
Sorry dude, didn't know I was bugging you with conversation...

Just kidding. But I was hoping to see the look on your face for that split second that you actually may have thought it was me :wink:
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Dude just wouldn't shut up. He was extremely irritating. I was half drunk... the last thing I wanted to talk about was mysql
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I feel you. Well you gave us all a good name by not slapping the idget straight cross the face.
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