Seeing technologies you love move forward is an exciting feeling. Another version brings hope of better integrated tools, increased security, and faster ways to complete core tasks, thus making your web application quicker. PHP6’s improvements and and updates are sure to make PHP6 the best version yet.

register_globals, safe_mode, and quote options Removed

register_globals, being the most significant removal, presents a giant security risk as it allows users to modify the querysting to add, change, and remove variable values. It’s highly recommended that you turn this value off on your present PHP build. Magic quotes functions, most notablemagic_quotes_gpc() and magic_quotes(), affect GET, POST, and COOKIE variables. I recommend turning this setting off as well.

Integrated Alternative PHP Cache (APC)

Though this setting will default to off, APC’s caching can significantly increase the speed of your web application. There are currently some great PHP caching libraries available but integrated support can make the system run faster. You can find more information on APC athttp://pecl.php.net/package/APC .

E_STRICT Messages Merged with E_ALL

This move will encourage better programming practices. Of course, you will need to set yourerror_reporting()< level to E_ALL. My websites use E_ALL while on my development server but I change to level 0 (show no errors) when moving then to their hosting server (so that if there is an error, the user can’t see the error).

String Indexes: {} Removed, Becomes Standard Use

As of PHP6, you will no longer be able to use {} to reference the value of a String’s character at a specified position — the standard array position syntax, , will become the only usage.

ASP Style Tags Removed (<% %>)

I have no idea why these were ever implemented. I’ve never used them, nor will I ever.

Increased Unicode Support

PHP does not presently provide adequate Unicode support and PHP6 aims to fix that. Unicode is treated on a per-request basis and cannot be used globally throughout PHP’s functionality — Unicode in PHP becomes inconsistent in usage and takes up more resources.

Other PHP6 Changes:

  • ‘var’ will become an alias of ‘public’ without an E_STRICT warning.
  • GD1 and FreeType1 versions will be removed.
  • Fast CGI will always be on.
  • HTTP_*_VARS variable will be removed.
  • XMLReader and XMLWriter will be integrated.
  • 64-bit integers will be added.
  • Ternary ‘?’ valuable will not be required ($myvar = $_POST[‘myvar’] ?: ‘myvalue’;)
  • foreach multidimensional arrays work (foreach($a as $k=>list($b,$c));)
  • Type-hinted return values (syntax not yet solidified)
  • Hardened PHP patch will be added for increased security.

We’ll continue to eagerly monitor PHP6’s progress!

Seeing technologies you love move forward is an exciting feeling. Another version brings hope of better integrated tools, increased security, and faster ways to complete core tasks, thus making your web application quicker. PHP6"s improvements and and updates are sure to make PHP6 the best version yet.

register_globals, safe_mode, and quote options Removed

register_globals, being the most significant removal, presents a giant security risk as it allows users to modify the querysting to add, change, and remove variable values. It"s highly recommended that you turn this value off on your present PHP build. Magic quotes functions, most notable magic_quotes_gpc() and magic_quotes() , affect GET, POST, and COOKIE variables. I recommend turning this setting off as well.

Integrated Alternative PHP Cache (APC)

Though this setting will default to off, APC"s caching can significantly increase the speed of your web application. There are currently some great PHP caching libraries available but integrated support can make the system run faster. You can find more information on APC at http://pecl.php.net/package/APC .

E_STRICT Messages Merged with E_ALL

This move will encourage better programming practices. Of course, you will need to set your error_reporting()

String Indexes: {} Removed, Becomes Standard Use

As of PHP6, you will no longer be able to use {} to reference the value of a String"s character at a specified position -- the standard array position syntax, , will become the only usage.

ASP Style Tags Removed (<% %>)

I have no idea why these were ever implemented. I"ve never used them, nor will I ever.

Increased Unicode Support

PHP does not presently provide adequate Unicode support and PHP6 aims to fix that. Unicode is treated on a per-request basis and cannot be used globally throughout PHP"s functionality -- Unicode in PHP becomes inconsistent in usage and takes up more resources.

Other PHP6 Changes:

  • "var" will become an alias of "public" without an E_STRICT warning.
  • GD1 and FreeType1 versions will be removed.
  • Fast CGI will always be on.
  • HTTP_*_VARS variable will be removed.
  • XMLReader and XMLWriter will be integrated.
  • 64-bit integers will be added.
  • Ternary "?" valuable will not be required ($myvar = $_POST["myvar"] ?: "myvalue";)
  • foreach multidimensional arrays work (foreach ($a as $k =>list ($b ,$c ));)
  • Type-hinted return values (syntax not yet solidified)
  • Hardened PHP patch will be added for increased security.

We"ll continue to eagerly monitor PHP6"s progress!

Here is a calendar of upcomng events around the Cathedral (non-Liturgical items).
NOTE: All items listed below are subject to change without prior notice. Please confirm venue and date/time with associated organizations .

January 2011

Saturday, January 8, 2011 - Yolka Christmas Program, St. John"s Academy,
Large Hall, 2pm - 5pm.

Sunday, January 9, 2011 - Yolka Christmas Program, Russian School,
Large Hall, 1pm.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - Fundraiser, St. John"s Academy,
Downstairs in Small Hall (under the Cathedral) after Liturgy and Blessing of Water.

Sunday, January 23, 2011 - Piroshki Fundraiser, Russian School,

Sunday, January 30, 2011 - Fundraiser, St. John"s Academy,
Downstairs in Small Hall (under the Cathedral) after both Liturgies.

February 2011

Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - Catechism Studies - The Law of God (for Adults )
in Russian

Sunday, February 6, 2011 - Blini Fundraiser for White Ball,
Downstairs in Hall under the Cathedral after both Liturgies.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011 - Catechism Studies - The Law of God (for Adults )
 conducted by Archpriest Yaroslav Belikow (in Russian ) held in Small Hall at 7:30pm.

Fri-Sun, February 11-13, 2011 - Annual Russian Festival,
Russian Center of San Francisco. Details: http://www.russiancentersf.com/

Sunday, February 13, 2011 - Piroshki Fundraiser for "Project Life" in Siberia,
a program supporting families who choose not to abort unborn children.

Sunday, February 20, 2011 - Annual Sisterhood Blini Fundraiser,
Downstairs in Small Hall after both Liturgies.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - Catechism Studies - The Law of God (for Adults )
 conducted by Archpriest Yaroslav Belikow (in Russian ) held in Small Hall at 7:30pm.

Last modified on February 24th, 2017 by Vincy.

Like other languages, PHP sleep() is also used to pause program execution for a particular amount of time. This sleeping time could be controlled by a parameter, sending as an argument to this function.

PHP sleep() accepts only one and mandatory argument denoting the period of time, for what, the PHP code execution invoking this function, should be paused. This parameter should be in integer data type. And this integer value specifies the number of seconds to be passed while putting the program execution into sleep.

Some languages like Javascript, not having direct functions like sleep, people might obtain sleep operation by using a loop, XMLHTTP request and etc. And sometimes, people who are new to PHP may also use for holding program execution for a while, with the required amount of time in seconds. This will be done by a lot of work, like, using for getting current and manipulating them to set a limit for running loops to let the program to wait for loop execution and thereby simulating sleep().

Example: PHP sleep()

Let us have a PHP example program with sleep() function pausing execution with specified amount of time.

Putting into sleep at: " . date("H:i:s") . "
"; sleep($sleep_time); echo "waked up after $sleep_time seconds. Current Time is: " . date("H:i:s") . "
"; ?>