Re: [tlug] MySQL 4.1.15, or MySQL 5.0?

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 06/05/06, Godwin Stewart <godwin.stewart@example.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 5 May 2006 13:04:16 -0700 (PDT), "Walter Hansen"
> <gandalf@example.com> wrote:
>
> > > PHP has had OOP capabilities for a long time.
> >
> > Guess everyone I've spoken to on that is mistaken then.
>
> Been around since PHP3.

A lot of real OOP guys (especially Design Patterns[1] types) would
argue that PHP4's OOP implementation is not *real* OOP. Objects are
certainly not first-class types, hence the ampersand soup.

In any case, OOP got a major overhaul in PHP5, and this is probably
the most important change to both the PHP interpreter developers and
the countless web developers who use PHP. See:

http://jp.php.net/manual/en/faq.migration5.php#faq.migration5.oop

This OnLamp.com article does a good job of summing up the major
differences between 4 and 5:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2004/07/15/UpgradePHP5.html

-Josh

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_pattern_%28computer_science%29