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How far away is PHP6
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:23 am
by anjanesh
I was checking out the syntax for strstr and was banging me head as to why $s = stristr ($s, ".com", TRUE) wasnt working when I realized under the changelog it was mentioned :
6.0.0 Added the before_needle parameter.
So they've started adding PHP 6 stuff into the docs.
So how far away is PHP 6 alpha/beta/RC?
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:55 am
by WaldoMonster
You can already download working Win32 compiles from
PHP Snapshots.
I don't know if these are alpha or beta versions.
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:56 am
by arjan.top
a year or more (final release), 5.3 will bring most of the things expected for 6.0 (but no full unicode support)
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:58 am
by anjanesh
arjan.top wrote:a year or more, 5.3 will bring most of the things expected for 6.0 (but no full unicode support)
Would 5.3 support namespaces ?
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:58 am
by arjan.top
yes
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:00 pm
by arjan.top
Some of new stuff (5.3):
# Namespaces: A way to help you organizing your code.
# Late Static Binding: Gives you the class name used when calling a static method.
# Dynamic static calls: $c = "classname"; $c::someMetod();
# Improved ini-handling: .htaccess file like per-directory configuration and much more
# __callStatic magic method: similar to __call but for static calls
# mysqlnd: a replacement for libmysql for better PHP-MySQL-Integration
# getopt() on any platform (inclding windows)
Re: How far away is PHP6
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:53 am
by anjanesh
Anyone have any clue as to when PHP 5.3 would be released ?
I've been googling for a long time, no ETA available.
Main interest is in late static binding, and namespaces.
Re: How far away is PHP6
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:32 pm
by Ambush Commander
I assume, though, it'll happen after most of the todos
here are addressed.