In the last two days there has been a new release of PHP4 (4.3.9) and PHP5 (5.0.2). When the first non-beta release of PHP5 came out I started trying it out. There are definitely some cool new features that were sorely needed in PHP, especially in the area of OO code. I’m still a bit bitter that they didn’t do multiple inheritance, I would have been happy with something similar to the way Perl does it (left to right depth first).
After trying out a couple of different applications that we run at work I decided to stick with PHP4 for production work for the time being. As much as I’d like to make use of PHP5 features, I just don’t see a major move to PHP4 for at least another 12 to 18 months. I must admit one surprise here, seeing apps that are already being written exclusively for PHP5. That must make for a relatively small target audience compared to the entire PHP community.
Another use for a blog, making predictions about the future so that the whole world can look back and see how wrong you were.