Re: Squirrelmail and PHP6

On 7/24/09, Steve Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>> So I am currently lead to believe that the PHP4 object syntax WILL NOT
>> break in PHP6.  Too bad there's not somewhere with some *accurate*,
>> definitive information about this.
>
> FWIW, I downloaded and built a snapshot of PHP6 to do some simple
> tests (cli only, not through a server).  The following class worked
> fine in PHP5 and PHP6:

Thanks, Steve.  So it works as you'd expect (STRICT warnings are a
given - poor coding).... all these articles are completely overblowing
the issue.  PHP4 object syntax does in fact live on in PHP6.

> <?php
> class foo {
>   var $bar = 'hello world';
>
>   function foo() {
>     echo $this->bar;
>   }
> }
> $a = new foo();
> ?>
>
> Output was as expected: 'hello world'.  However, the following class
> taken from the PHP docs raised some strict PHP warnings:
>
> <?php
> class A
> {
>     function foo()
>     {
>         if (isset($this)) {
>             echo '$this is defined (';
>             echo get_class($this);
>             echo ")\n";
>         } else {
>             echo "\$this is not defined.\n";
>         }
>     }
> }
>
> class B
> {
>     function bar()
>     {
>         A::foo();
>     }
> }
>
> $a = new A();
> $a->foo();
> A::foo();
> $b = new B();
> $b->bar();
> B::bar();
> ?>
>
> Output was as follows:
>
> $this is defined (A)
> PHP Strict Standards:  Non-static method A::foo() should not be called
> statically in - on line 26
> $this is not defined.
> PHP Strict Standards:  Non-static method A::foo() should not be called
> statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in - on line 20
> $this is defined (B)
> PHP Strict Standards:  Non-static method B::bar() should not be called
> statically in - on line 29
> PHP Strict Standards:  Non-static method A::foo() should not be called
> statically in - on line 20
> $this is not defined.

-- 
Paul Lesniewski
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