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Freek Lijten has posted another "Currently on PHP's internals..." post to his blog today (here's the previous one) with a look at the discussions around the idea of having "property accessors" in PHP - a standardized way of defining getters/setters in objects.

Over on the PHPClasses.org blog today there's a new post looking at the next major upcoming PHP version (5.4), what it comes with and why you might want to make the upgrade.

Sharon Levy has a new post to her blog showing a trick she's come up with to show the PHP version information (usually found in the phpinfo) even when it's disabled.

Nils Luxton has written up a guide you can follow to get the latest (non-production) release of PHP - v5.4.0alpha1 - up and running on your machine in your WampServer instance.

The latest release of PHP Manager 1.2 for IIS now includes Windows PowerShell commands that can be used to install, configure and manage PHP on IIS 7 from command line.

In addition those commands can be used to automate the configuration and management tasks.

Here are examples of what can be done with PHP Manager command line tools:

On the PHPClasses.org blog today Manuel Lemos gives his perspective on the recently announced PHP fork by Robert Eisele that has the community buzzing with comments from both sides of the fence.

New PHP Version Fork By Manuel Lemos A fork is a new version of a project that a separate group of developers that want to give the project a different route.

A new PHP forked version was created by Robert Eisele to address needs that he felt were important.

Read this article to know in more detail about this PHP fork.

Ralph Schindler has put together a new post for his blog about some of the best practices for using exceptions in PHP 5.3 - specifically dealing with some of the new functionality that comes with this latest PHP version.

I was writing about new features in the upcoming PHP version (5.4, 6.0?) before.

Today's topic reads like this in the NEWS file:

- Added array dereferencing support.

(Felipe)

Now you might wonder what this typical short entry means. when doing OO-style PHP you might make use of a sntax feature which one might call "object dereferencing" which looks like this:

A few months ago the current development branch for the next major release of PHP was dropped.

It was in development for several years and was intended to bring Unicode support to the core of the language.

The approach taken was not seen as feasible for many so it was never completed. Its existance however slowed down development and made release management difficult.

For example PHP 5.3 was basically created to get some features from this new Unicode branch released.