I was reading through the manual looking for other things, and I
stumbled on this new entry in the OOP5 documentation:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/languag...c-bindings.php

This is really awesome, and solves a lot of redundant redefinitions I've
had to do in child classes. I just wanted to alert anyone who is
unaware (as I was) of this new feature that's coming in 5.3. Now I'm
pretty stoked on 5.3 being released (although even when it is released,
it will be ages before it makes it into debian stable. D'oh!)

Jeremy

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:58:52 +0100, Jeremy <jeremy@pinacol.com> wrote:

> I was reading through the manual looking for other things, and I
> stumbled on this new entry in the OOP5 documentation:
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/languag...c-bindings.php
>
> This is really awesome, and solves a lot of redundant redefinitions I've
> had to do in child classes. I just wanted to alert anyone who is
> unaware (as I was) of this new feature that's coming in 5.3. Now I'm
> pretty stoked on 5.3 being released (although even when it is released,
> it will be ages before it makes it into debian stable. D'oh!)


Yup, awaited with anticipation.
--
Rik Wasmus

..oO(Jeremy)

>I was reading through the manual looking for other things, and I
>stumbled on this new entry in the OOP5 documentation:
>
>http://www.php.net/manual/en/languag...c-bindings.php

This and namespaces are the two most important new features in PHP 5.3
that were "backported" from PHP 6.

>This is really awesome, and solves a lot of redundant redefinitions I've
>had to do in child classes. I just wanted to alert anyone who is
>unaware (as I was) of this new feature that's coming in 5.3. Now I'm
>pretty stoked on 5.3 being released

Should be around April or May, AFAIK.

>(although even when it is released,
>it will be ages before it makes it into debian stable. D'oh!)

Compile your own, it's not that difficult. I'm already playing around
with a 5.3 snapshot, but there are still some nasty bugs in it ...

Micha

Michael Fesser wrote:
> .oO(Jeremy)
>
>> I was reading through the manual looking for other things, and I
>> stumbled on this new entry in the OOP5 documentation:
>>
>> http://www.php.net/manual/en/languag...c-bindings.php
>
> This and namespaces are the two most important new features in PHP 5.3
> that were "backported" from PHP 6.
>

Namespaces are coming to 5.3 as well? That is great news. Yeah, now I
see that they added a new entry for that as well. Sweet!

> <snip>
>
> Compile your own, it's not that difficult. I'm already playing around
> with a 5.3 snapshot, but there are still some nasty bugs in it ...
>
> Micha

Yeah, I have no problem with compiling it. But for our production
servers we've long since decided to stick with debian's stable packages
for reliability's sake. Maybe I'll make a package of 5.3 when the
source is released and secretly deploy it without telling anyone ;-)

Jeremy