Future of PHP and Whats new in PHP 6 Posted by Stranger on 8:53 AM Digg it Bookmark it Stumble it Email to friend

Php was started in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf. Within 15 years php suffer from various path and now it is language of choice. Some critics may raise some question but apart from disadvantages it has too many advantages, that is why some people speak PHP.Click Here to clear some facts.

Now php community is going to release version 6. PHP 6 is coming with some new exciting changes which programmer really like. It is currently available as developer snapshot. You can download by clicking on http://snaps.php.net/ . New feature is really cool.


Following Things has been added

• Improved Unicode support
• Namespaces
• SOAP
• XML

Following Things has been removed

• magic_quotes
• register_globals
• register_long_arrays
• safe_mode
  

Improved Unicode support: In PHP6 unicode support is improved. Scince php support various characterset, It was mendetory.

Namespace: Namespaces are a way of avoiding name collisions between functionsand classes without using prefixes in naming conventions that make the names of your methods and classes unreadable. Now php is being used by some large application and sometime developer need to create too many class, In this case some time php stucked in PHP5, Best example is nusoap library integration. It can not be integrated because soapclient class is avalible with soap.dll.