What was your favorite feature that was introduced in PHP 5.3? [closed]

Answer 1

Late static binding! Finally some sensible way for "normal" inheritance (similar to C or Java).

For example I've created base class that hides all the gory details of accessing the database, object relational mapping, caching etc. and it's child classes define only:

• name of the table
• column names
• parent-child relationships

Answer 2

My favorite feature is that the magic quotes and register globals have been DEPRECATED.

Now, any fool still using these will get a warning right to their face :)

Answer 3

In my opinion the late static binding is one of the feature that I will use the most.

http://ca2.php.net/lsb

With this, it will now be possible to get the maximum out of inheritance.

Answer 4

I think PHAR, Lambda and namespace. Theses features seems interesting.

It's hard to answer right now cause we ddidn't use it on a whole project and we already find some strange behavior.

I think next versio of PDT will help programming with PHP 5.3.