As you might know, php.net pulled the support for all version of php 4. I think it's about time! That beast has to be put down quickly with it's many many problems and poor OOP support, really trying to program with code compatible to php 4 as well is a horrible pain to anyone who heard the words OOP and Regular Expressions. Since creators of php stopped supporting it, i said, why should I really worry about it too much?

PHP 5 is great, really, but there are alot of things to improve, like no more c-style functions like strstr(), strcmp(), ect... It's time to go for classes and maybe namespaces. I would really rather call $str->indexOf("mystring") then do it with the old style c function way (i really hated that about c btw, visual c++.net was alot more like it). Also event really checked the exception model yet of PHP, but i haven't seen too many people using it even tho it exists, so i guess i hope they will work on that too.

What do you guys think? What do you want from PHP 6, which is in development now.

Some article I came across about it:
http://jero.net/articles/php6

Oh god no. Don't harm innocent PHP, it did nothing to you!

Some of us love using strcmp() and strstr().

This post has been edited by Tom9729: 3 Mar, 2008 - 07:13 PM

yea im going to side with Tom on this one. I like the c styled syntax

I agree with Tom as well. I like the object oriented setup they have in PHP5 but I think making everything a method of an object rather than a simple c-style call is a bit overkill. It only makes things a bit more verbose and when code placement is a bit more critical than in an IDE like VS, it is better to have the smallest function call possible I think.

For example, I want to call strtoupper("stringhere"); when I want to capitalize a string in between a set of html tags... all which I have done inline <span style=""><?php echo strtoupper("stringhere"); ?></span> is much more compact that having to worry about either creating an object or calling a method from some static object.

Now I am all for OOP in PHP5 and I think it is great, but I think for the simple calls should be left in the c-style. After all, if I want it to be a method of an object, I could just create the class myself.



This post has been edited by Martyr2: 4 Mar, 2008 - 09:34 AM

Oh i see your all ganging up on me huh? lol

Ok marty point taken about simple calls, but what about more complex stuff like IO maybe? Why aren't there built-in exceptions for IO, that's one thing that really kills me.

Another one is that you don't have a word to declare a variable. Why can't you declare one :S, caused me many headaches when i find out that all i did was to leave out the s or something like that from a variable name.

So what no one has any other issues with PHP 5 that he/she would like to be resolved in PHP 6? Do you honestly think it's that perfect?