An Early Look At What's Coming In PHP V6

IndioMan writes "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." Update — May 7th at 16:47 GMT by SS: IBM seems to have removed the article linked in the summary. Here's a different yet related article about the future of PHP, but it's a year old.

Re:Time to pay the piper...

[FictionPimp]

This is why I never write legacy code, only progressive forward thinking code!

People who write legacy code are just not thinking of the future.

Re:So, when will PHP 6 be released?

[Burkin]

I heard it'll be released the same day as Duke Nukem Forever as 3D Realms will be using it in the relaunch of their site for the game.

Re:Time to pay the piper...

[77Punker]

I think PHP developers with legacy code are going to be paying the price for several versions to come.

I prefer to call it "job security".

Re:Limited cleanup

[Just Some Guy]

But that might break something that two people found convenient in 1997 and therefore can never be repudiated.

Re:Namespaces

[ari_j]

It'll probably just print 90 copies of an error message that makes sense on the surface but gives no indication of what it actually means.

Re:question:

[pizza_milkshake]

The worst design decision yet, which is saying something.

Re:question:

[Just Some Guy]

Can you blame them for trying to escape?

Re:Finally

[clone53421]

Too bad Slashdot still wonâ(TM)t.

I mean, won't.

Re:My items to be fixed

[clone53421]

You also forgot: <p>

Re:Working Link

[VGPowerlord]

I hate to say it, but this wouldn't be the first time on /. when an article was submitted with a link that was a year or more older and the article made it to the main page. Particularly since the article the GP linked to is a year old to the day.

I can only imagine the submitter/approver looked at the date, say May 6th, and went "OMG, that's today!!!111"

Re:Finally

[Yvan256]

But you can use Boost [boost.com] with any language, I don't see your point.

Re:Finally

[Yvan256]

That's so cliché.

Its like fast food..

[greywire]

PHP: its like fast food..

You know its bad for you...

You feel like crap after eating it...

But damnit, its right there, oh so conveniently located on the way to work, and sometimes a greasy cheeseburger just hits the spot, even though you know you'll pay for it later in heartburn and much later in high cholesterol and love handles, even though right now its really cheap on the wallet.

Its a guilty pleasure.

And while you're sucking down that greaseball burger, you see the local soup and salad restaraunt and think "next time, I'll eat right.."

But come the next day and you see that taco joint and..

Re:Finally

[spanky the monk]

No, just ubiquity.

Re:Namespaces

[amicusNYCL]

Are you telling me that you're confused by this:

<?php
echo "Hello $Foo\n";
?>

and then you put this in your sig:

perl -e 'printf"%02X"x4,unpack"C4",gethostbyname"$_.aacs.phroggy.com" for qw/Just another Perl hacker/'

Re:So...

[jamonterrell]

You made a much wiser decision in going with perl. You have virtually no risk of an update coming out that breaks backwards compatibility.

Re:Namespaces

[amicusNYCL]

Gesundheit.