Re: Re: Are PHP5 features worth it?

On Tuesday 19 December 2006 19:24, Tony Marston wrote: > I have written a large application which uses the OO features of PHP 4, and > the same code runs untouched with PHP 5. There is no advantage in making > use of some of these fancy new features in PHP 5, so I just don't bother. I couldn't disagree more. While I've yet to write any exception-based code, for me the magic getter/setter functionality in PHP 5's OOP is reason enough to switch all on its own. Even if you don't want to write Java-style OO with crazy nested hierarchies (which you shouldn't be doing in PHP), true Singletons can be quite nice. The simplicity offered by passing objects as references is nice. There's a lot more to PHP 5's OOP than just "let's add exceptions because Java has them", and that's not even counting the non-OOP improvements. Your point falls flat anyway. Yes, most PHP 4 code will keep on humming in PHP 5. That doesn't mean the PHP 5 features have "no advantage", it just means that they're not mandatory for code to work in PHP 5. There's plenty that you can do in PH P 5 that you couldn't do in PHP 4, but if all you know is PHP 4 then you don't know what they are yet. Your argument is logically false. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson