On Reddit.com today chadicus has asked the question that seems to make the rounds every so often in the community - what feature would you like added to the PHP language itself (not a class or a library). There's a wide range of responses (including his own for extension classes) like:

• Native internationalization (I18N) support.
• Function overloading
• Native JSON construction/manipulation
• Consistent naming of the built-in functions (i.e., strpos(), str_rot13()).
• Variadic function definitions
• Property Get/Set syntax

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David Skalr shares some good news on the publishing front - the latest version (second edition) of the "PHP Cookbook" is rolling off the presses.

The new edition of PHP Cookbook is on the way! I got one copy yesterday, so it should be making its way into bookstores and online-bookstore-warehouses any day now.

Updates included in this edition are:

• revamped XML and OOP sections
• new PDO information
• information on testing code
• performance tuning
• regular expressions

David Skalr shares some good news on the publishing front - the latest version (second edition) of the "PHP Cookbook" is rolling off the presses.

The new edition of PHP Cookbook is on the way! I got one copy yesterday, so it should be making its way into bookstores and online-bookstore-warehouses any day now.

Updates included in this edition are:

• revamped XML and OOP sections
• new PDO information
• information on testing code
• performance tuning
• regular expressions