If you've missed out on a lot of the buzz surrounding the new version of PHP that's coming soon (well, pretty soon), then you might want to check out this new article from PHPBuilder.com this morning.

In his introduction to PHP5, the author highilights some of the cooler features that are coming in this long-awaited version, including: Constructors and destructors, Objects as references, Cloning objects, Private, Public and Protected keywords, and many more. He also goes through and gives some examples of how each will be used, which is nice. Too many of these "here's what to expect in PHP5" pieces just talk about the new features, and don't show how the'll benefit us as programmers.

Overall, it's a pretty good intro piece, but doesn't get much beyond that. I want someone to write something that takes a chunk or two of PHP4 code, and modifies it to PHP5 so that we can compare the two....that'd be nice...