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PHP 4.2.0 Released

Posted by krow on from the ich-fahr-omnibus-truly-langweilig dept.

emmetropia writes: "PHP 4.2.0 has been released, with experimental Apache 2 support, and lots of other improvements and fixes. Check it out!"

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  1. PEAR DB by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is always the PEAR DB abstraction layer: http://pear.php.net/manual/en/core.db.php

    No need to write the wrappers yourself

  2. Re:PHP functions by fdragon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Have you taken a look at PHP 4.x's equiv to the CPAN yet, PEAR?

    Using PEAR I have items such as database abstraction, PHPDoc (JavaDoc for PHP basically), and much more.

    Sure it is a layer on top of what is available but if you combine this, with APC or Zend you can precompile everything to byte code for faster execution.

    Documentation for php is also very easy to find. You have it available for download in HTML, TXT, Windows CHM, and PalmDOC formats. All of this is also available online fully searchable with comments from the users.

    As for your complaint about the built in nature of all the database access functions, how else would you do it? Generate .so/.dll libraries for the functions so you can update them later? (This is already done.)

    Now on to your complaint of long function names. How else should we do it? Use something cryptic like hungarian notation so we end up with a function that looks like "pidbcm" for returns a pointer to an in and i am a database connect function for MySQL? Personally I don't find a problem with identifiers up to 50 characters long so long as they define what the identifier is. The compiler will take them out anyways.

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  3. looks like its /.'ed by krs-one · · Score: 2, Informative

    The download was VERY slow for me, mirror at php-4.2.0.tar.gz.

    -Vic

  4. Re:new functions / features in 4.2.0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    err ... try this instead

  5. Re:external variables by Skip1952 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Don't know if this will help but I had to put the following in the php.ini file:

    register_globals = On

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    == Shipwrecked and comatose
  6. Re:external variables by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Yes, the default was changed to off, so if you need this behavior, this needs to be explicitly set.

    4.1.0 added some nice new global arrays to make programming a bit easier, and this new default behavior should make people write their scripts a little more carefully.

  7. Re:Valid XML fragment by StigBakken · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just add " ... ?>" before your fragment and feed it to xml_parse. See http://php.net/xml.

    - Stig