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Contributions

• PHP-GTK
• Extensions: Perl-compatible regular expressions, WDDX support, PHP code tokenizer, userspace object overloading, object aggregation
• Console_Getopt PEAR class
• Session extension additions
• A variety of array and other functions
• Zend engine contributions
• Smarty template engine
• Online PHP code browsing (Bonsai/LXR)
• Automated ChangeLog generation

Software

Please see downloads page.

Patches

• Case-sensitivity [ZendEngine2]
  This patch removes the horrible mutation that is the case-insensitivity feature of PHP. But it doesn't work against the current CVS. And even if it did, convincing the other half of PHP developers that it's necessary is futile. So just go get a beer instead.
• is operator [ZendEngine2]
  Update: This has been implemented in Zend Engine 2 as instanceof operator now. The patch is somewhat obsolete, then.
  Introduces new operator is which can be used to find out whether a value is of a certain type or class. It obviates the need for all the is_*() type query functions, including is_a(). Example:

  <?php
  class foo {
  }
  
  class bar extends foo {
  }
  
  class zoo {
  }
  
  $a = new bar;
  $b = 5;
  $c = "test";
  
  var_dump($a is bar);
  var_dump($a is foo);
  var_dump($a is zoo);
  var_dump($b is (int));
  var_dump($c is (bool));
  ?>
  
  

• Concatenation and object operator change [ZendEngine2]
  Update: probably doesn't work against current CVS. It was a crazy idea anyway.
  Inspired by Larry Wall's talk on Perl 6. This patch changes concatenation operator to be ' _ ' (note the whitespace) instead of . (dot), and object operator -> to the newly available . (dot). Looks much better and easier to type, IMHO. Example:

  $a = 'a' _ 'b';
  var_dump($a);
  $b = $a
       _ $a;
  var_dump($b);
  $b _= '55';
  var_dump($b);
  
  class foo {
    var $bar;
  
    function blah()
    {
       print "hey\n";
    }
  }
  
  $c = new foo;
  var_dump($c.bar);
  $c.blah();