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By: phppassion.com » Blog Archive » Installing PHP6 (For beginners)

phppassion.com » Blog Archive » Installing PHP6 (For beginners) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:10:02 +0000

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By: n-blue | PHP 6

n-blue | PHP 6 — Sun, 11 May 2008 04:43:01 +0000

[...] Unofficial PHP6 Changelog [...]

By: .k

.k — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:55:32 +0000

"Better Unicode Support" is very dissapointing…
should be "full unicode support".

By: T.J.

T.J. — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:11:16 +0000

The only real 'new' features are the 'shorthand' ternary operators (redundant sounding eh?) and the ability to use list() in a foreach statement (finally). I agree with the above, where is some enhanced language features?

By: RAM

RAM — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:55:17 +0000

Scriptor,

We all must remember that PHP 6 hasn't been released yet, and is only available from snaps.php.net or via CVS.

Perhaps when PHP 6 releases a beta or pre-release version would your claim hold water.

By: PHP6 Unofficial Changelog « Explore Open Source Technology

PHP6 Unofficial Changelog « Explore Open Source Technology — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:44:41 +0000

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By: Becoming PHP 6 Compatible - .: Aptechite's Forum :.

Becoming PHP 6 Compatible - .: Aptechite's Forum :. — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:38:08 +0000

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By: Scriptor

Scriptor — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:33:41 +0000

With the above changes, I really don't see how the next version merits to be called 'PHP 6'. Mostly it's just old, dangerous, and obsolete baggage getting removed. Most of those changes could be done in some future PHP 5 release, if it wasn't for the backlog of developers and code still using to-be-deprecated features.
How about some actual new syntax features? It could stir the waters a bit. One thing I'd like is the ability to add functions to an object/class dynamically, a bit closer to prototypal programming, but it'd be quite handy. Also, it'd be pretty cool to see the blocks in Smalltalk and Ruby being implemented.
How many PHP developers actually have fun coding in PHP? I keep hearing about how it's simple. But it's only a superficial simplicity. Zend needs to figure out that they had better find another way to improve PHP than by adding new classes and functions.

By: JD

JD — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:35:05 +0000

Any word on the much-needed improvements to the object/class situation?

By: links for 2007-12-13 « Bijay Rungta’s Weblog

links for 2007-12-13 « Bijay Rungta’s Weblog — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:34:26 +0000

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By: Brendon

Brendon — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:01:06 +0000

I did think that but the PHP 6 minutes say:

// Evaluates to $_GET['foo'] if it's not set (with a notice) or false. It
// evaluates to 42 if $_GET['foo'] evaluates to true.
$foo = $_GET['foo'] ?: 42;

// Evaluates to "true" if $blå equals 42 and it evaluates to 54 otherwise.
$blå = $blå == 42 ?: 54;

I'm probably missing something pretty obvious, but to me it is contradictive.

By: Ovidiu C.

Ovidiu C. — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:55:32 +0000

I'm not 1000‰ sure, but I think $a = $s ?: 'b' works something like this:

if ($s) {
$a = $s;
} else {
$a = 'b';
}

By: Making the web » Becoming PHP 6 Compatible

Making the web » Becoming PHP 6 Compatible — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:19:19 +0000

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