This is fairly old news but I thought it still might be interesting... PHP 6.0 is expected soon , below are some meeting notes of the PHP staff where they published what was kept , added or removed... Basic improvments: OO has been improved Clean-up mechanism improved Security patches added and security checks have been improved Some syntax and sementics added / removed Sandbox manipulation improved Basiclly I expect a faster , more secured and easier PHP coding from PHP 6.0 http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html dracula4ever