Comments on: What is new in PHP 5.3 for PHP amateurs?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 May 2010 17:59:20 +0000

good share, great article, very usefull for us..thank you

By: alex

alex — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:27:29 +0000

can’t wait for anonymous functions

By: Fujjedeilyav

Fujjedeilyav — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:30:33 +0000

Thanks for the post!!

By: Trouts

Trouts — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:41:30 +0000

Nice review.
I believe PHP 5.3 is really great, i just hope they don’t get to embed Zend everywhere on it… Zend is a framework, It SHOULD be optional.

On the syntax, the thing that is still missing is $arr = ['key'=>$val, 'key2'=>$val2, ...], short syntax for $arr = array(‘key’=>$val, ‘key2′=>$val2, …);
With optional array arguments now everywhere in frameworks and libraries, this is a must have :/
We really miss this on some naturephp plugins.

By: RaiulBaztepo

RaiulBaztepo — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:58:13 +0000

Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo

By: texec

texec — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:03:16 +0000

@MazonM: That’s not correct. (int) “string” == 1, so

var_dump ( max ( ’string’, 4 ) ); // prints 4

@momo: You can separate frameworks and functions and use them in multiple contexts without renaming them.

@sjs $fn(”hello”); works but $ns doesn’t work.

@mernen Yes you are right.

By: momo

momo — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:34:54 +0000

I’m slow

I don’t really see the advantage of namespaces yet… The example given looks like the same amount code with either comment_save or Comment/save. I get that you could group multiple functions funder a single class, but it just seems to be a matter of style preference more then anything else.

By: Matthew Turland

Matthew Turland — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:02:30 +0000

Note that Traits are still listed in the “Active” section versus the “Implemented” section of the wiki’s RFC page: wiki.php.net/rfc. So this is likely in PHP 5.4 maybe??.

By: sjs

sjs — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:38:12 +0000

@NashMcCabe
Yes . is catenation in PHP but that alone doesn’t preclude it from also being a lookup operation (imo).
PHP allows a form of metaprogramming by simple string variable substitution. If you imagine the example given here but with an instance instead of a class function then you can see how the . in that context is ambiguous.
$ns = “Namespace”;
$fn = “functionName”;
$ns.$fn(“hello”); // <<~ is this a lookup or a call to a function named NamespacefunctionName()?

By: the_classifier

the_classifier — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:37:08 +0000

that’s the string concatenation operator.