PHP 5.6.0 alpha1

The PHP development team has announced the start of the PHP 5.6.0 release cycle.

Some innovations:

• Phpdbg debugger
• Reuse php: // input
• Uploading files larger than 2GB
• Added hash algorithm gost-crypto
• Improved SSL / TLS, OpenSSL adds the openssl_x509_fingerprint function.
• Scalar expressions in constants
• Variable number of function arguments

Scalar expressions in constants

const THREE = TWO + 1; const ONE_THIRD = ONE / self::THREE; const SENTENCE = 'The value of '.THREE.' is 3'; 

Variable number of function arguments

 function f($req, $opt = null, ...$params) { // $params is an array containing the remaining arguments. printf('$req: %d; $opt: %d; number of params: %d'."\n", $req, $opt, count($params)); } 

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The use statement now supports variables and functions.

 use const Name\Space\FOO; use function Name\Space\f; 

The next alpha release is scheduled for February 6th.



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