PHP 5.3 implements a feature called “late static bindings” that has been in the works since the PHP Developers Meeting that took place in November 2005 in Paris. This feature resolves an issue of inheritance, used to reference the called class in a context of static inheritance. Prior to version 5.3 a problem existed if [...]

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Namespace has been used in programming languages for quite a few years. Java uses them extensively, and many people have complained about the lack of namespace in PHP. Namespace was initially slated for PHP 5.0, but due to difficulties with its implementation, integration into the code base was postponed to version 5.3. With the release [...]

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