Extra Features of PHP5

Extra Features of PHP5

PHP was introduced on 13 July 2004. PHP5 is the latest ver. Of PHP. I have many new features like OOP, PDO (php data object) extension. We are here covering the new features of PHP5

·         It is more object oriented than PHP4

·         An abstract class can be declared in PHP5

·         It has a unique function autoload()

·         You can define a method or class as final

·         It has some magic functions like _get, _set, _call and _toString

·         It has clean error handling and exceptions as well

·         Private, Public and Protected has been introduced as well

·         Objects uses passed by reference

·         It has some new keywords and functions

·         It has a new extension of MySQL called MySQLi

·         It has a newly built-In extension called SOAP for interoperability of Web services

·         It has SimpleXML extension for making XML as PHP objects. It support DOM extension.

·         It has extra OOP concepts like Inheritance, Encapsulation and access specifiers

·         It consumes less RAM

·         It has new concept of errors like “E_STRICT”

·         It has new interfaces as well

·         It introduces Constructor and Destructors

·         It is fully compatible with W3 standard

PHP 5.4.28 has been released on May 1^st 2014. 9 bugs has been removed in this release. This is the latest update of PHP5.