Nov 22, 2008, 13:24 by natts
A little bit rushed on the odd topic, but I suppose that was the idea :-)
What’s New, What’s Hot in PHP 5.3
Johannes Schlüter (Nov 22, 2008 at 06:00)
Talk at PHP North West 2008 (English - US)
The current PHP version, PHP 5.3 introduced a multitude of new language features, most notably namespaces and late static binding, new extensions such as phar, as well as numerous other improvements. Even so, this power-packed release boasts better performance than older PHP releases. This talk will give you a good overview about PHP 5.3 and show some less known features in detail.
Quicklink: http://joind.in/84
Comments
Nov 24, 2008, 09:25 by GingerDog
Useful code snippets - even if we're not totally sold on the idea of \ and namespaces ;)
Obviously plenty of content, and the speaker answered the questions very well (With additional slides etc)
Nov 24, 2008, 18:25 by stefan
A good overview. I got the idea though that, given a bit more time, things could've been made more clear.
Nov 26, 2008, 09:12 by Anonymous
Good presentation. Would've been interesting to be given a little bit of the background of the implementation issues involved with the new features - why some were left out, why some took longer and so on.
Real world examples of why the new features were useful would've been good too. I had someone asking me the difference between namespaces and simply prefixing your class names.. although I'm sure most people understand what namespaces are for, it would've been a good extra slide to include.
Nov 22, 2008, 12:02 by BinaryKitten
good to know what's coming up.. some slides a bit confusing with multiple reuses of same variables in examples for different things.. aparat from that good clean presentation