Today, in Zend's latest PHP Weekly Review, there's talk of several things - ranging from PHP 5 and E_STRICT, several extensions being moved to PECL, and the naming scheme for PHP 5.

The E_STRICT error reporting level is still up for debate as far as what it should include. The main reason for an argument here is the deprecation of var in favour of public when declaring class properties. This would break a lot of existing PEAR (http://pear.php.net/) code and will turn it incompatible to PHP 4, if var is replaced by public. The simple solution now is, as it was by design, to disable E_STRICT by default and have it enabled by purists.

Also, the extensions that were moved over to the PECL world this week included: qtdom, crack, mcal, and many more. The goal here is to trim down the PHP core source and make it as streamlined as possible.

The naming scheme for PHP 5 seems to be quite a hot topic, given that there are so many differing opinions out there. There was a conscensus reached, but not announced currently - possibly in a future Summary.

Of course, there are other things mentioned in this week's summary, so head on over and check them out...