PHP 6 and What to Expect

An anonymous reader writes "Jero has a few interesting thoughts on what PHP 6 is driving towards and provides a nice overview of what has been keeping the PHP team busy lately. For more specifics, PHP.net also has the developers meeting minutes from last November available with a great recap of all the major issues on their platter."

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Lack of backwards compatibility

[kestasjk]

phpBB, vBulletin, mysqladmin, postnuke, phpDiplomacy [kuliukas.com] (shameless self promotion), etc, etc; none will work until they've been ported to the new PHP5 OO model, and once they've been ported they won't work on PHP4.

They should leave in backwards compatibility for the class based OO model which <PHP5 uses. Once they bring out PHP6, PHP5 will be the only version which runs new and legacy PHP scripts, so PHP5 will clearly become the standard for a long time.

I'm a big fan of PHP, but with so many apps (e.g. my university's timetabling app) still in PHP3, all the rest in PHP4, both becoming obsolete, changes to the API, even changes to what's allowed within the same version [phpbb.com]; I'm starting to wonder if I should have focused on a more stable language like python or perl instead.

Re:How about "use strict;" directive

[MavEtJu]

Too true. Declaration of variables, and local variables in blocks, is what keeps preventing me from making stupid mistakes in Perl.

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Re:Web hosts should be offering more choice

[aevans]

actually, there is a very good reason to not use python for HTML template scripting, and anyone who's used JSP knows why, despite what the python users say about "using a proper text editor"