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Any noteworthy changes on 5.5 overall? I'm happy the language is moving forward with a seemingly faster traction than before (github effect?), but I haven't hea

by Mahn 14y ago

Any noteworthy changes on 5.5 overall? I'm happy the language is moving forward with a seemingly faster traction than before (github effect?), but I haven't heard of any game changing feature getting implemented yet since quite a while. Still waiting for a object literals syntax myself.

prg318 14y ago
https://raw.github.com/php/php-src/php-5.5.0alpha6/NEWS https://raw.github.com/php/php-src/php-5.5.0alpha6/NEWS
ecaron 14y ago
The new changes I'm looking forward to are the password hashing API, scalar type hints and generators. I'm also looking forward to 3 things that AREN'T going to be there: register_global, safe mode, and magic_quotes
- calinet6 14y ago
  Wow, those are finally going away? It's almost like the end of an era. Cool.
  - lonnyk 14y ago
    They were removed in 5.4 [1] [1]http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.incompatible.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.incompatible.php
- Jeremy1026 14y ago
  I too am looking forward to the new Password Hashing API. Having quick ability to hash and verify a password should save a fair bit of time in the long run.
- nachteilig 14y ago
  The password hashing stuff should be really nice in the long run--at least when it's widely used. PHP in particular seems to have a lot of bad home brew implementations out there, so it'll be nice to have a better default.
- verisimilitude 14y ago
  In the meantime, I really enjoy using Marco Arment's Bcrypt PHP class: https://gist.github.com/marcoarment/1053158 https://gist.github.com/marcoarment/1053158
  - lotsofcows 14y ago
    Bcrypt? It's all about scrypt these days. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10149554/are-there-any-php-implementations-of-scrypt http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10149554/are-there-any-ph...
- jcoby 14y ago
  There is a PHP 5.3.7+ implementation of the password API here: https://github.com/ircmaxell/password_compat https://github.com/ircmaxell/password_compat
mscarborough 14y ago
It seems to continue the PHP 5.4 vein in that it adds some syntactic shortcuts and some niceties that make it a bit easier / cleaner to read and write. Personally I'm pretty happy with traits and array dereferencing against function returns. The new array literal syntax is nicer and more like other languages, in that you don't have to wrap everything with array(), instead just use the [] syntax. Feature-wise 5.4 added traits and 5.5 has generators. http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.new-features.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.new-features.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration55.new-features.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration55.new-features.php

by Mahn 14y ago

prg318 14y ago

https://raw.github.com/php/php-src/php-5.5.0alpha6/NEWS https://raw.github.com/php/php-src/php-5.5.0alpha6/NEWS

ecaron 14y ago

The new changes I'm looking forward to are the password hashing API, scalar type hints and generators. I'm also looking forward to 3 things that AREN'T going to be there: register_global, safe mode, and magic_quotes

calinet6 14y ago
Wow, those are finally going away? It's almost like the end of an era. Cool.
- lonnyk 14y ago
  They were removed in 5.4 [1] [1]http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.incompatible.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.incompatible.php
Jeremy1026 14y ago
I too am looking forward to the new Password Hashing API. Having quick ability to hash and verify a password should save a fair bit of time in the long run.
nachteilig 14y ago
The password hashing stuff should be really nice in the long run--at least when it's widely used. PHP in particular seems to have a lot of bad home brew implementations out there, so it'll be nice to have a better default.
verisimilitude 14y ago
In the meantime, I really enjoy using Marco Arment's Bcrypt PHP class: https://gist.github.com/marcoarment/1053158 https://gist.github.com/marcoarment/1053158
- lotsofcows 14y ago
  Bcrypt? It's all about scrypt these days. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10149554/are-there-any-php-implementations-of-scrypt http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10149554/are-there-any-ph...
jcoby 14y ago
There is a PHP 5.3.7+ implementation of the password API here: https://github.com/ircmaxell/password_compat https://github.com/ircmaxell/password_compat

mscarborough 14y ago

It seems to continue the PHP 5.4 vein in that it adds some syntactic shortcuts and some niceties that make it a bit easier / cleaner to read and write. Personally I'm pretty happy with traits and array dereferencing against function returns. The new array literal syntax is nicer and more like other languages, in that you don't have to wrap everything with array(), instead just use the [] syntax. Feature-wise 5.4 added traits and 5.5 has generators. http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.new-features.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.new-features.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration55.new-features.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration55.new-features.php