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.
Did you mean http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-future/ ?
My summary of PHP6: a few improvements followed by a ton of stupid features that will be deprecated in PHP7, same as every major PHP release before it, while various other features that PHP sorely lacks will be left on the benches with reasoning like “it’s not the PHP way.” The end.
Any thoughts on what features PHP actually needs? Honestly, UTF-8 Support & namespaces were pretty high on my list. Sure you could refactor the core functions that are inconsistently named and accept parameters in a non standard way, but what else?
Named parameters would also be nice.
is it me or is that article from exactly one year ago??
That’s why it seemed familiar.
Yep! Tom, are we having a slow news day?
You’re a year late…sorry !
What about:
– enforcing variable definition
– typization
– real arrays