PHP 5.3 Release raising new heights in Website Development
PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML-embedded scripting language. Currently there are over half a million domains running PHP and it is freely available for download online from www.php.net. Much of PHP’s syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. PHP eliminates the need for numerous small CGI programs by allowing you to place simple scripts directly in your HTML files. It also makes it easier to manage large web sites by placing all components of a web page in a single html file.
For example, if you are creating an online catalog, you will most likely have a design template for all related catalog pages. Traditionally, this design is generated by hand in HTML and different data is presented within the template design. With PHP, one application can be used to generate all the pages required to display items from a database in the proper pages, in the right locations, and with the appropriate related content. This eliminates redundant page generation, simplifying maintenance. PHP also reduces the site down to a handful of template pages, with scripts that generate the rest of the site. Hence helping all website owners of Kuwait in delivering right information about their products and services to all people of Kuwait.
PHP is an excellent alternative to such similar programming solutions as Microsoft’s proprietary scripting engine ASP and Allaire’s rather expensive Cold Fusion. As mentioned before, PHP is a cross-platform language. This doesn’t stop with the core PHP code but can be extended to all of PHP’s libraries and all code written in PHP.
Neither ASP nor Cold Fusion can make this claim. PHP has a large feature set which includes built-in support for numerous databases (including Access, LDAP, Oracle, and MSSQL), networking support, zip archiving, and an excellent set of built-in functions. Furthermore, due in part to it being open source and freely available for download on the web, the language enjoys an active developing environment. Since the syntax structure borrows heavily from C, it is easy for even the novice programmer to learn the language. PHP is also the oldest HTML-embedded scripting language, giving it a head start on all the others.
After a long string of delays, we all developers of Kuwait waited for PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.3 is finally out. On the course of last 2 years, I was pretty sure a number of times that it will happen next month the latest, but there always were good reasons to postpone it. Now finally it’s officially out. I think it’s a huge step for PHP.
Some major features in 5.3 which will help to make your website rich and finally will help your business:
1. Namespaces! They didn’t end up exactly as I thought they would but they are a major feature PHP was missing for a long time, and I’m very curious to see how it works out in big projects.
2. Closures and anonymous functions! PHP now has first-class functions, and you can do all kinds of crazy stuff with it. Or just make your code easier to read and maintain.
3. Garbage collection. PHP engine, being refcount-based, always has had a slight problem with reference loops. Even though usually it was not a big issue since at the end of the request everything is cleaned up, for long-running PHP applications not based on short request pattern it became a problem. Not anymore – now the engine knows to clean up such loops.
4. Late static binding – it’s somewhat exotic thing for people that never encountered it, but was very burning issue for people that did need it. Basically, when class Foo extends class Bar, and the method func() defined in Foo is called as Bar::func(), there was no way to distinguish it from Foo::func(). Now there is. This allows to implement all kinds of cool patterns like ActiveRecord.
5. Intl extension in core – lots of functions to allow you to internationalize your application.
6. Phar in core – now you can pack all the application in one neat file and still be able to run it!
7. Nowdocs – same as heredocs, but doesn’t parse variables. Excellent feature for somebody that wants to include bing chunk of text into the script which can happen to have $’s etc. in it.
8. ?: shortcut. That’s simple – $a?:$b is $a if $a is true, otherwise it’s $b.
9. goto. Yes, I know. But now we have it too. Deal with it.
10. mysqlnd – native PHP-specific mysql driver.
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