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Phil Sturgeon has a new post today looking at PHP-FIG and upcoming proposals the group currently has in progress. It also shares some of the problems with some of the current standards (including some amendments and replacements that need to happen).

I've managed to get myself involved in a lot of projects in and around the PHP community because I like to offer my advice, experience and time to trying to make things better. Recently, I've been putting in lots of time for bits around the PHP-FIG. Like it or not, tabs or spaces, PSR-2 or no, the PHP-FIG has had a huge impact on the PHP community and it's going to continue to do so. We have more PSR's in the works now that at any point before, and they're awesome ones.

He starts with a brief look at the next PSRs coming down the line: PSR-5 for PHPDocumentor standards, PSR-6 for a caching interface and PSR-7 with a standardized HTTP interface structure. He then gets into the problems around some of the current standards including the differences in autloading (PSR-0 vs PSR-4), the amendment process and a suggestion that PSR-2 (the coding standard) needs to be replaced.

As is mentioned in this Reddit post, two new PSRs have officially entered "Draft" status - PSR-5 for PHPDocumentor standards and PSR-6 related to caching implementations.

PSR-4 got to draft status a week ago and the other day it went into Review status. I pushed it to Review quickly as its already been around for several months (before this new workflow existed) so there didn't seem like much point in waiting. In less than two weeks we can put that in for an acceptance vote and we will have a new autoloader! Excellent. More good news from the FIG is that PSR-5 and PSR-6 are officially coming onto the scene, both now in Draft status too!

PSR-5, the PHPDoc standard, is more of an inclusion (and update) of most of the current standards people use when writing their PHPDoc comments, just more formalized by the PHP-FIG. PSR-6 is newer and is more akin to the logging PSR, defining the basic interface for an interchangeable caching layer. You can read more about each of the proposals in the mailing list: PSR-5: PHPDoc and PSR-6: caching.