Comments on: Upcoming PHP6 Additions & Changes

By: Ivan

Ivan — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:11:31 +0000

loop.. switch.. continue..

When will it be fixed?? It’s been a DECADE since this glitch was reported!
Who did this fundamental keyword ever hurt to deserve this blasphemy??
Why must PHP “continue 2 break” it’s fundamental meaning?…
What is next? Reverse the syntax for post an pre increments???
Where does this madness end!?

Rasmus Lerdorf… you have the power to fix it!

By: Timothy A Perez

Timothy A Perez — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:26:38 +0000

The use of mysql_* functions are very insecure and obsolete. I created an extended PDO Class and I must say it kicks ass. I know you can escape strings with sprintf when you use mysql_query, but it’s redundant and annoying. Let PDO do it for you.

OOP is a good practice and I’m glad PHP is heading more towards that direction. It helps make PHP more of a respected language in the enterprise world.

By: Artefact2

Artefact2 — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:47:58 +0000

“Ternary ‘?’ valuable will not be required ($myvar = $_POST['myvar'] ?: ‘myvalue’; )”

Actually, this was implemented (and thus works) in PHP 5.3.

By: Peter van Dam

Peter van Dam — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:43:10 +0000

Thanks for the summary. Looks like i’m just one of the few who think this update is annoying with removal of several big things just for ‘security’ reasons….

The biggest issue in my mind is the removal op mysql_* functions in PHP6. It’s like the biggest function that people use with PHP and now they remove it. Why? Because the other function, like PDO is safer? It’s just a repositioning of the problem and nothing more.

Whats next, the removal of echo and print?

By: Syosoft

Syosoft — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:52:25 +0000

Ryan, i think you’re mistaken. {} isn’t going completely away, just for referencing string position. You don’t have to remove {} everywhere…

By: DamionKutaeff

DamionKutaeff — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:01:36 +0000

Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I’m glad to join your conmunity,
and wish to assit as far as possible.

By: PHP Encoder

PHP Encoder — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:13:49 +0000

I like every change in PHP6. This is great! Thanks for this summary.

By: Ryan Zec

Ryan Zec — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:22:57 +0000

the {} to [] is a little confusing, not sure what they gain and i am sure some people use is quite a bit. I am going to need to go through my framework and convert and {} to [] even tho there should not be that many, i usually use single quotes anyways. Other than that, it is more good news.

By: Guti

Guti — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:38:30 +0000

Very nice summary of the improvements on PHP 6.
Personally, it is a must to have unicode support.