It has finally arrived, the brand new and most talked about version of PHP, the v5 ... with a new core of the latest
Zend Engine 2. Though its the final release of the version, it would still take another 7-8 months for the version to reach a stable status; but considering its huge response, it shouldn't be long before its adopted everywhere.
Here is the announcement by Andi Gutmans on
php.net yesterday.
quoting "Andi Gutmans"
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 (
http://www.sqlite.org/).
- Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access
low-level socket operations on streams.
- And lots more...
