I’m trying to compile a list of features that were introduced in PHP 5.3.
That I have to check out as time permits. I’d like to do this in the order of usefulness of the features.
The question is subjective, that is the point. I want to end up with a list ordered by what the community liked.
Such a list would hopefully be useful to many who need to do historical research then in the years 2012 or 2013 and I have not been able to find one on SO who did this so far.
Please have named one specific feature per answer, thanks in the past!
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: