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The PHP Language Workbench
Sebastian Bergmann
http://sebastian-bergmann.de/
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August 23 2008

PHP Language Extensions
● PECL has extensions that
– add “normal” functionality to PHP and/or
– are “not so normal”
● Operator
● VLD
● Parsekit
● Parse Tree
● Runkit
● Intercept

ext/operator
● Operator Overloading
● C++, for instance, allows to overload
operators such as +, -, * and /
● The programmer can decide on the
semantics of these operators on a class-by-
class basis
● Goal: Make the code more readable