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 PHP 5 Released

  • July 14th, 2004
  • 8:48 am

The final version of PHP 5 has been realeased. This is a huge release for php, featuring a new Object model and a bunch of new functions

from the web site:
Some of the key features of PHP 5 include:

* The Zend Engine II with a new object model and dozens of new features.

* XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now focused around the excellent libxml2 library (http://www.xmlsoft.org/).

* A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML as PHP objects. It can also interface with the DOM extension and vice-versa.

* A brand new built-in SOAP extension for interoperability with Web Services.

* A new MySQL extension named MySQLi for developers using MySQL 4.1 and later. This new extension includes an object-oriented interface in addition to a traditional interface; as well as support for many of MySQL’s new features, such as prepared statements.

* SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite, please visit their website.

* Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access low-level socket operations on streams.

* And lots more…

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