PHPDeveloper.org http://www.phpdeveloper.org Up-to-the Minute PHP News, views and community en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 07:51:16 -0500 30 <![CDATA[NetTuts.com: PHP 5.4 is Here! What You Must Know]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/17631 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/17631 NetTuts.com has posted their own "what you must know" about the recently released (major) upgrade to the PHP language - PHP 5.4.

PHP 5.4 is here; the next major step forward since version 5.3 - keeping PHP 6 (full Unicode support) on hold for now. The latest enhancements significantly improve its elegance, while removing deprecated functionality, resulting in a dramatic optimization of the runtime (up to 20% more speed and memory usage reduction).

They hit all of the highlights:

  • Traits
  • Built-in CLI Web-Server
  • Shorter Array Syntax
  • Array Dereferencing
  • $this In Anonymous Functions
  • <?= is Always On
  • Binary Number Representation
  • Callable Typehint
  • Initialized High Precision Timer

Code examples are provided where relevant.

]]> Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:24:48 -0600 <![CDATA[DevTheWeb.net: Things You Probably Didn't Know About PHP '" Part 2]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/13885 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/13885 The DevTheWeb.net blog is back again with the second installment of "Things You Probably Didn't Know About PHP" - some lesser known facts about the popular web language (part one is here).

Some of the things on his list this time include:

  • Using the type matching equality operators (like "===" versus just "==")
  • Returning multiple values by reference
  • Chaining method calls
  • Returning the value of print_r as a string
  • Using the mysqli functions instead of just mysql
]]> Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:41:55 -0600 <![CDATA[International PHP Magazine: Poll Question: You Did Not Know That]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/6299 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/6299 The International PHP Magazine has conducted a poll on its website over the past week, this time asking "You Did Not Know That...", asking developers which of the true statements about PHP they didn't know about.

The options this time were:

  • The trailing '?>' in PHP is Optional
  • You can embed other programming languages in PHP
  • Objects can be made to look like arrays by using Standard PHP Library
  • require is faster than require_once
  • Anything Less than 5.1.0 is Silly
  • All
There wasn't a whole lot of difference in the results of this poll, but the most all-inclusive of the list was the one selected the most - "All". Following that, was that the trailing closing PHP tag is optional, then a tie for third between the "embed other languages" and "Less than PHP 5.1.0" options.

Be sure to cast your vote in their latest poll that asks readers that they're really looking for in their frameworks.

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