The Arrival of PHP 5.

The fourth beta release of PHP 5 came out at the end of December 2003.

This version has lot many additions and are increasing its usabilities.

1) Exception Handling.

It can raise exceptions and handle to make your software more robust. Something similar to try ... catch statements in java and c++.

2) More object-Oriented support.

It have added the more types of variable like in other oop languages. Eg.Public, Private, Protected.

It alse have static methods and variables and abstract classes.

3) Type Checking.

It have a better typechecking which allows to check the type of variable or object passes to method.

4) Pass by value.

In PHP 5 the objects are always passed by reference, unlike the php4.

This have really made me eager to read the complete documentation of php 5.

and will right more about that.

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