PHP 6.0 peek (unknown release date)

It’s long since we’ve had the first inside info about the 6th version of PHP. Actually, the very first time I heard about PHP 6 was back in 1999, long before good old PHP 4.3.0 (http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php-src/NEWS?view=markup)

This Mid Octomber we will have the PHP 5.3.0 release. No word on the PHP6 release date, so we still have to wait. But the news is that PHP 5.3.0 will already have some of the 6th release announced features/improvements (namespace support, improved XML support through use of XMLReader and XMLWriter, SOAP support and others). So no Unicode support yet and you may still play with ereg (you have more time to switch to preg_match, hurry up )

If you want to peek (again?) on what we’ll have in the PHP 6.0, I have some quick picks for you:

http://php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-future/
http://www.phpro.org/articles/PHP6-Preview.html
http://snaps.php.net/ (php 6 snapshot, developer build)

PS: but of course, we already have the PHP 6 book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/032152599X/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top)