12-27-2005, 11:32 AM
Quote:PHP has long been a favorite dynamic programming language for Web developers. After 10 years of growth, 2006 looks to be a banner year for the open source language as its collaboration framework, partner ecosystem and the language itself are expected to grow and gain new users.
Look for a confluence of three distinct branches of the PHP language, with versions 4, 5 and 6 all likely to be out in the market in 2006...
PHP 6 is likely to come out in 2006 with some important innovations. Perhaps the most important new feature is Unicode, an encoding scheme that allows for virtually all major world languages to be encoded into a single character set.
Ebay is bullish on PHP's embrace of Unicode. Trachtenberg said it would make it easier for developers to communicate with anyone across eBay's sites...
full article: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/art...hp/3573486