Since I’m no real PHP developer (just pretending) I have only now started to use PHP 5.3.2, although it was released quite long ago. The reason to this is that I have just installed Aptana Studio 2, which comes with PHP 5.3.2, so I guess it’s time to learn it.

After installing Aptana Studio 2, I tried to execute a build/packagetest for a PHP project of mine, but it did not work due to small modifications in PHP 5.3.2.

First of all, get_class no longer accepts string parameters anymore, so I will just have to change all the places where I use it. Thank GOD for all unit tests!

I have used get_class in functions where a parameter could either be a string or an object. Instead, I now use is_string, which is a lot cleaner.

I’ve also noticed that parse_ini_file is a bit shaky now. It is no longer able to parse ini files that end with a row at which a parameter is specified (all my previous ini files). The files cannot be parsed, probably since the line feed is considered to be a part of the parameter value.

I solve this by adding an extra, empty line at the end of each ini file. I don’t know why this has changed, since it’s both annoying and poses a risk of error in case an ini file doesn’t end with an empty line. I hope it will change in future versions of PHP.