New in PHP 5

By Jim on October 20th, 2004

Dan Rubio has some thoughts on new stuff in PHP 5.

The greatest change in PHP 5 comes with a complete redesign of its object model, and with it, a tighter integration to object-oriented (OO) paradigms. Previous versions’ usage of objects had one major drawback: Objects were not tightly aligned with the behavioural patterns observed in other object languages like Java or C++. While PHP offered a simpler approach, the disparity created a considerable chasm for those wanting to use PHP in a truly object-oriented manner — in the sense of what the industry perceives as object-oriented.

I’m very much a total novice with PHP but I hope to learn more. I’ve had to deal with it in Beehive, the forum software that my forum users, so I’ll be teaching myself more about it in the future just so I have a better understanding of it when I’m tweaking Beehive and other PHP based apps.