NYCPHP Meetup

[Tim McEwen]

Off the top of my head:

1) Exceptions (i know you already mentioned oop but i think  
exceptions are worth their own bullet)
2) file_put_contents (and all the other built in functions available  
only 5+  (userland alts are slower)
3) Speed (all of the big and little tweaks to memory handling pay  
off,  especially with OOP)
4) Reflection API  (as a lazy documenter,  i have a soft spot for the  
reflection api)
5) PDO  (parameter binding, easy,  parameter binding, easy)
6) Iterators (once again, oop but worth its own mention)
6) SPL (DirectoryIterator is so much more fun than opendir....)
7) Upgrading to php5 will give you practice for upgrading to php6.  :)

Probably taking some major php5 feature for granted but its been a  
while since I've had to work with php4 so my memory is a little dusty.

Good luck with the sell....

-Tim

On Apr 26, 2006, at 7:37 PM, Peter Sawczynec wrote:

> I need a quick intense refresher on 6-10 of the most tangible, most  
> salient,
> conversational selling points for doing the PHP 4.3.x upgrade to  
> PHP 5.1.2.
> So far I've got:
> 1) OOP
> 2) Better XML, Web Services handling potential
> 3) [duh] ...
>
> Isn't there more versatile date handling? Is the new MySQLi extension
> offering some speed or flexibility enhancements?
>
> I just need a few good ones to present. Anything in areas of  
> improved speed
> or security would be solid.
>
> [ By the by, is that AJAX in use at http://us2.php.net/search.php ]
>
> Warmest regards,
>
> Peter Sawczynec,
> Technology Director
> PSWebcode
> _Design & Interface
> _Ecommerce
> _Database Management
> ps at pswebcode.com
> 718.796.1951
> www.pswebcode.com
>
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