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| PHP5 Vs PHP6 |
PHP is actually a set of extensions that are all
gathered together in order to make what we currently have.
Nevertheless, these extensions can be changed and the same happens
to the collection. Let’s imagine, for example the XML Writer
extension. It is a very good extension for writing XML files. A
similar extension, XML Reader, has already been attached and allowed
in the essential distribution in PHP 5.1, and currently XML Writer
will use its model in PHP 6, making an excellent couple in order to
work easily with XML files.
Another modification in the essential distribution is the exclusion
of the ereg frequent expressions library that is going to become an
extension. ereg is now used as a competitor of PCRE (preg_match,
etc.), but it seems to cause some problems. Consequently, the
experts have made the decision to take it out of the core and change
it into an extension.
Now, media type detection is not quite good in PHP. There is
mime_magic extension, which is not quite useful. Therefore in PHP 6,
the Fileinfo extension will replace mime_magic and it will be
integrated in the core while mime_magic will be taken out of the
core and changed into extension.
These changes seem to be really interesting. You can conclude that
PHP 6 is not really a huge characteristics upgrade, but it is more a
great cleanup based on optimizing a lot of functions which already
exist, on the move. There are professionals working with PHP almost
every day and they can notice improvements every moment. |
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