PHP 4.3.8 Install
July 18, 2004 | In DeveloperNo sooner do I install 4.3.7 but .8 gets released - due to “several security issues that have been discovered”. I’ll get around to installing version 5 sometime soon.
I noticed PHP5 is going for Private and Protected Members, Methods etc. so it’s looking quite powerful.
Zend say: “The Zend Engine 2.0 introduces a new object model, more similar to Java, in the sense that variables now contain object handles, instead of the objects themselves. This means that moving around the object handle back and forth will no longer create replicas of the object, but just multiple references to the same object. In addition to a much more intuitive programming interface, the new object model allows for the implementation of destructors, improved dereferencing support (func()->method1()->method2()), and more.”.
Note the “more similar to Java” caveat. It looks like they’re knocking at the door but it’ll be probably not until PHP6 that they’ll go all out C++/Java OOP.
