PHP6 Wishlist - Page 2

wGEric · 11-16-2007, 05:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dschreck

I've also heard that all PHP6 is going to be is just really Unicode. Forget where I read that... think it was on a blog or something. See if I can't dig up the article.

That would be nice so that it has full UTF-8 support.

C01t · 11-29-2007, 11:34 AM

Namespaces should be!!! And it's already more that just a script language!!!

But I can't figure out why not to add operator overloading.
I think that if we have array access through iterators in SPL, so they can introduce something like MathInterface witch will allow overloading of operators.

Simply like:

PHP Code:


			
class foo implements AddOperator

{

    public function operatorAdd(foo &$object) 

    {

        /* @todo adding does here */

    }

}

If array access is posible then that is possible too

Karl · 11-29-2007, 02:22 PM

I just don't think operator overloading is on their priority list :(

After all, how often are general PHP users going to need operator overloading? I imagine it won't be very often. Although personally, I have required it in the past :(

C01t · 11-29-2007, 02:29 PM

If some people don't know C++ or operator overloading feature that doesn't mean we don't need it!!!

I'm sure that every professional developer more than one in his life required this feature, so why limit ourself?

Karl · 11-29-2007, 02:33 PM

No no, I totally agree with you, I'd love to see operator overloading implemented. I was just saying that I don't think the PHP people will see it as a priority.

Wildhoney · 11-29-2007, 02:56 PM

There's so many things that don't appear to be on their priority list - or even on their list at all which should be.

sketchMedia · 11-29-2007, 06:36 PM

Id love to see method and constructor overloading like C++ like this:

Code:

class Test
{
    public:
        Test();
        Test(int num1, int num2);
    private:
        int itsNum1;
        int itsNum2;
}
Test::Test()
{
    itsNum1 = 0;
    itsNum2 = 5;
}
Test::Test(int num1, int num2)
{
    itsNum1 = num1;
    itsNum2 = num2;
}

So then we can have 2 types of constructor called.
Its quite a flexible feature in C++ so it would be nice to see it in PHP (not just constructors but functions too) and operator overloading too.

WinSrev · 11-29-2007, 07:40 PM

I'd love to see some speed improvements and for it to be multi-core and even x64. More security would be good too although i suppose that really comes down to the coders.

Wildhoney · 11-30-2007, 02:32 AM

Well, your speed improvements would come about if Zend stopped promoting their Zend Accelerator, which is a completely separate entity to PHP and requires some hard-cash to use it, and introduced caching as standard. Can you see that happening? I can't. But at least you can implement caching on your own. Whereas Python (I believe), amongst other popular and not-so-popular languages come with caching as standard. PHP really is the odd one out. It would most certainly speed PHP up by at least 500%. Happy days!

C01t · 11-30-2007, 09:33 AM

PHP5 is much quicker then PHP4, and PHP6 will include (but off by default) byte code cache. So PHP7 may have some JiT compiler or something...

WinSrev · 11-30-2007, 03:24 PM

I sure do hope so, i think speed is a thing that needs to be overhauled on PHP (hopefully they will think the same), it'd be a big bonus for small and large websites running PHP.

aristoworks · 11-30-2007, 07:11 PM

This might seem a bit retarded but I'd like a function similar to mysql_real_escape_string() but with a much shorter name. When I'm handling forms and going through escaping variables and such it becomes a pain writing a bunch of mysql_real_escape_string()'s.

Morishani · 11-30-2007, 07:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aristoworks

This might seem a bit retarded but I'd like a function similar to mysql_real_escape_string() but with a much shorter name. When I'm handling forms and going through escaping variables and such it becomes a pain writing a bunch of mysql_real_escape_string()'s.

Well , There you go :

PHP Code:


			
function a($szStr)

    {

    return mysql_real_escape_string($szStr);

    }

WinSrev · 11-30-2007, 07:26 PM

Ah ha, very nice, :D

aristoworks · 11-30-2007, 07:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Morishani

Well , There you go :

PHP Code:


			
function a($szStr)

    {

    return mysql_real_escape_string($szStr);

    }

Thanks Morishani - yea I already know that trick ;) but I'm talking about shortening the function name by default. Just a nit-pick.