PHP 6: How You Liking It?

[pbmods]

Well, I just got PHP 6 installed on my dev box.

My framework apparently is not PHP 6-ready ):

I guess it was due for a rewrite anyway, what with all the new features in PHP 5.3 (originally planned for PHP 6, but I won't tell anybody if you don't ^^).

A couple of things I don't like about PHP 6 so far:

• Magic methods have to be public.
• Redeclared class methods have to be compatible with the parent method. I especially hate this.

But, given what a pain Unicode is (http://blog.pbmods.com/2008/06/30/fa...-utf-8-part-1/), I'm eager to see how well PHP 6 is able to abstract it away.

Beyond that, I haven't had too much time to play with it. Anybody else started working with the PHP 6 dev build?

[pbmods]

Ran into some interesting quirks around namespaces (presumably, this also affects PHP 5.3):

http://blog.pbmods.com/2008/08/17/im...aces-in-php-6/
http://blog.pbmods.com/2008/08/17/na...nd-__autoload/

[dlite922]

I heard the big thing with 6 was Unicode compatibility, but for an english user, that doesn't give me any help.

I understand and are tolerant of other languages (English is a second language for me too) but I'm sorry to say that I was disappointed with that being the highlight of version 6.

It's impossible for me to code or develop an app in my native tounge (arabic character set) because it's so funky and awkward.

I may sound like a total jerk, but I hope the message i'm conveying is I wish the world was a little more united.

I'm getting off topic...

Does anybody have a good clear list of ADDED features in 6 so that I can see what I can incorporate into my framework?





Dan

[pbmods]

PHP 6 is Unicode. That's all you get.

All of the other features were bumped up to 5.3. If you want to see some significant new features, check out the 5.3 alpha.

Incidentally, the Unicode stuff was added not so that developers can code in other languages, but to handle User input in other languages. If you're building a website for doing business all over the world, this is a big deal.