PHP: Design and Management

In July 2004, PHP 5.0 was released. This version introduced a suite of radical enhancements. Perhaps first among these was radically improved support for object-oriented programming. This stimulated much interest in objects and design within the PHP community. In fact, this was an intensification of a process that began when version 4 first made object-oriented programming with PHP a serious reality. And, although this was a step change, it was really only the beginning of PHP’s radical shift to embrace object orientation. The theme was taken up and extended by both PHP 7 and PHP 8, as you’ll see.