Why PHP 5 Rocks!
I have a new article up on the O’Reilly Network: Why PHP 5 Rocks!.
This piece covers all the reasons I’m very excited about PHP 5, and in particular lists my top seven favorite features. In short, they are:
- Robust Support for OOP
- Completely Rewritten MySQL Extension
- A Suite of Interoperable XML Tools
- An Embedded Database with SQLite
- Cleaner Error Handling with Exceptions
- A First-Class SOAP Implementation
- Iterators
For more details, you’ll need to read the article. In a few weeks, I’ll try and run a companion piece, Why PHP 5 Sucks!, which will go ahead and attack all the points I made in my original article.
Am I schizophrenic? Maybe, but it sounds fun nevertheless. It also ties into my OSCON session Why PHP 5 Sucks! Why PHP 5 Rocks!, so it’s a good way for me to get moving on my slides.