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-1. strrpos() and strripos() now use the entire string as a needle. Be aware
- that the existing scripts may no longer work as you expect.
-
- EX :
- <?php
- var_dump(strrpos("ABCDEF","DEF"));
- var_dump(strrpos("ABCDEF","DAF"));
- ?>
-
- Will give you different results. The former returns 3 while the latter
- returns false rather than the position of the last occurrence of 'D'.
- The same applies to strripos().
-
-2. Illegal use of string offsets causes E_ERROR instead of E_WARNING.
-
- EX :
- <?php
- $a = "foo";
- unset($a[0][1][2]);
- ?>
-
- Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in ... on line 1
-
-3. array_merge() was changed to accept only arrays. If a non-array variable is
- passed, a E_WARNING will be thrown for every such parameter. Be careful
- because your code may start emitting E_WARNING out of the blue.
-
-4. Be careful when porting from ext/mysql to ext/mysqli. The following
- functions return NULL when no more data is available in the result set
- (ext/mysql's functions return FALSE).
-
- - mysqli_fetch_row()
- - mysqli_fetch_array()
- - mysqli_fetch_assoc()
-
-5. PATH_TRANSLATED server variable is no longer set implicitly under
- Apache2 SAPI in contrast to the situation in PHP 4, where it is set to the
- same value as the SCRIPT_FILENAME server variable when it is not populated
- by Apache. This change was made to comply with the CGI specification.
- Please refer to bug #23610 for further information.
-
-6. Starting PHP 5.0.0 the T_ML_CONSTANT constant is no longer defined by the
- ext/tokenizer extension. If error_reporting is set to E_ALL notices will
- be produced. Instead of T_ML_CONSTANT for /* */ the T_COMMENT constant
- is used, thus both // and /* */ are resolved as the T_COMMENT constant.
- However the PHPDoc style comments /** */ ,which starting PHP 5 are parsed
- by PHP, are recongnized as T_DOC_COMMENT.
-
-7. $_SERVER should be populated with argc and argv if variables_order
- includes "S". If you have specifically configured your system to not
- create $_SERVER, then of course it shouldn't be there. The change was to
- always make argc and argv available in the CLI version regardless of the
- variables_order setting. As in, the CLI version will now always populate
- the global $argc and $argv variables.
-
-8. In some cases classes must be declared before used. It only happens only
- if some of the new features of PHP 5 are used. Otherwise the behaviour is
- the old.
- Example 1 (works with no errors):
- <?php
- $a = new a();
- class a {
- }
- ?>
-
- Example 2 (throws an error):
- <?php
- $a = new a();
- interface b{
- }
- class a implements b {
- }
- ?>
-
- Output (example 2) :
- Fatal error: Class 'a' not found in /tmp/cl.php on line 2
-
-9. get_class() starting PHP 5 returns the name of the class as it was
- declared which may lead to problems in older scripts that rely on
- the previous behaviour - the class name is lowercased. Expect the
- same behaviour from get_parent_class() when applicable.
- Example :
- <?php
- class FooBar {
- }
- class ExtFooBar extends FooBar{}
- $a = new FooBar();
- var_dump(get_class($a), get_parent_class($a));
- ?>
-
- Output (PHP 4):
- string(6) "foobar"
- string(9) "extfoobar"
-
- Output (PHP 5):
- string(6) "FooBar"
- string(9) "ExtFooBar"
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Example code that will break :
- //....
- function someMethod($p) {
- if (get_class($p) != 'helpingclass') {
- return FALSE;
- }
- //...
- }
- //...
- Possible solution is to search for get_class() and get_parent_class() in
- all your scripts and use strtolower().
-
-10. get_class_methods() returns the names of the methods of a class as they
- declared. In PHP4 the names are all lowercased.
- Example code :
- <?php
- class Foo{
- function doFoo(){}
- function hasFoo(){}
- }
- var_dump(get_class_methods("Foo"));
- ?>
- Output (PHP4):
- array(2) {
- [0]=>
- string(5) "dofoo"
- [1]=>
- string(6) "hasfoo"
- }
- Output (PHP5):
- array(2) {
- [0]=>
- string(5) "doFoo"
- [1]=>
- string(6) "hasFoo"
- }
-
-11. Assignment $this is impossible. Starting PHP 5.0.0 $this has special
- meaning in class methods and is recognized by the PHP parser. The latter
- will generate a parse error when assignment to $this is found
- Example code :
- <?php
- class Foo {
- function assignNew($obj) {
- $this = $obj;
- }
- }
- $a = new Foo();
- $b = new Foo();
- $a->assignNew($b);
- echo "I was executed\n";
- ?>
- Output (PHP 4):
- I was executed
- Output (PHP 5):
- PHP Fatal error: Cannot re-assign $this in /tmp/this_ex.php on line 4
-