What is coming in PHP 4.0?
- Currently in late-beta
- Compiler, code runs significantly faster
- Better OO (syntax fixes, op. overloading, superclass ref.)
- Modular, self-contained extensions
- Database abstraction layer (ala Perl's DBI)
- Reference counting
- Thread safe core
- More server modules through SAPI
- foreach()
- Output buffering
- Support for a real debugger
- Support for caching compiled code
- Support for an optimizer
- Java ties