chris# wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:30:26 -0500, Larry Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
The claim that is still repeated
that one "has to" rewrite everything to be OO in order to port to PHP 5
is,
quite simply, FUD.
True. But then again, what's the point of using 5 if you're not inclined, or
have the need to write OO apps? It is simply alot of wasted language/ space
and resources, as a whole. Hey! I don't need OO and I've already got PHP4
installed. Why bother with 5 at all?
There are a number of nice features in PHP5 that have nothing to do with
actually creating your own classes or extending built-ins, such as (off
the top of my head):
- file_get_contents()
- simplexml / DOM parsing / libxml2
- json_encode|decode
- stable APC
- SPL
- PDO ( although you can get it for 4.4, you can't depend on it being
there )
- backwards compatibility with lots of procedural PHP4 code =)
If you're writing an app that does a lot of json or xml parsing or
output, *even if you don't use the class keyword anywhere in your own
code* PHP5 is a better language than PHP4. Drupal is a great example of
this because even though Drupal doesn't use classes, many Drupal devs
want to use PHP5 features in Drupal core. Right Larry?
JeffG
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