PHP 4.3.0 Released

aftk2 writes "PHP.Net has just reported the release of PHP 4.3.0. The update sports a unified method of handling files and sockets, a bundled GD library (for working with images), and finalizes PHP's command line interface. For other information, check out the ChangeLog."

Comments

That's great

[Karamchand]

Thanks go to the PHP team for all this great work!! :-)

It's a pity though that Apache 2 support is still experimental. I hope the Apache and the PHP team get the work done fast so that Apache 2 can spread faster! :)

Best New Feature

[The-Perl-CD-Bookshel]

Is the friendly error messages , they point you back to the PHP Documentation. Being a regular in #PHP IRC channels, this is going to save me a lot of headaches :) Praise the lord, the newbies have fully automated RTFM messaging!!

In a related note....

[Davorama]

...this just came in to my inbox. PEAR at version 1.0. Good job folks!

The new PEAR package PEAR-1.0 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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* set default cache_ttl to 1 hour
* added "clear-cache" command

Package Info
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The PEAR package contains:
* the PEAR base class
* the PEAR_Error error handling mechanism
* the PEAR installer, for creating, distributing
and installing packages

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?package=PEAR
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package-changelog.php?package= PEAR
Download: http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-1.0.tgz

Authors
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Stig Bakken <ssb@fast.no> (lead)
Thomas V.V.Cox <cox@idecnet.com> (developer)
Martin Jansen <mj@php.net> (helper)

Re:Why I prefer PHP to Perl

[Anonymous Coward]

While I wouldn't use its to code the new Doom (VB would be a better choice)

*ROTFL*

Ahh, an excellent post. I'll give you a solid B+.

But, if I may give you some advice. The VB comment gives you away. You must make your trolls highly subtle, even more so than they are now. They must balance lightly on a fine edge between Trolldom and NonTrolldom. People in a hurry should be able to scan your message and be 100% convinced you are an idiot, and have no idea you are really in control. Then they will post, and when the troll is discovered, THEY will look like idiots, and you will be revealed as a genius because of your gentle entrapment. This is the true genius of a troll. To ensnare and to incite the unwary.

One metric I use in my own efforts is the dynamic of up/down moderations. A "perfect troll" should look like this:

1. First the comment should be modded up +3 or +4 insightful immediately, since your post will no doubt be long, and in the early stages, all long posts are considered insightful because nobody bothers to read them.
2. Next, people who disagree with you will come by and mod it down to +1 flaimebait (a few humourless souls will actually mod it as a troll).
3. Next, people who get the joke will come and raise it to +3,+4 funny. Now your Troll is gaining steam.
4. It should waffle about between Troll and Funny for several minutes, hours if you're good. Hitting zero is a bad sign, your post might get lost. If this happens, you made your troll too inflammitory.
5. When things settle, you should have "total=16" or better in the mod point summary.
6. Finally, it should stablize at +4 funny. +5 means you made the joke too obvious. +4 is perfection. If you make it this far, congratulations!

I wish you luck in your further efforts.

Student suspended over suspected use of PHP

[happypizzaguy]

I thought this might apply here. Hypertext preprocessors are pretty dangerous. Everyone use 4.3.0 with caution.

Re:Most needed feature for newbies......

[caluml]

I can't believe you're saying this.
The PHP docs are brilliant.
You just type in the function name, and there are enough examples to get you running until you actually start understanding the language.

I learnt PHP purely from www.uk.php.net, and I have always found the Java and Perl docs to have too much stuff in them.

The PHP docs are like this:
mysql_connect ([hostname],[username],[password]) Returns true if successful.
What more do you need to know? What goes into a function, what comes out.

I'm genuinely not trolling here, I'm just surprised that anyone could moan about the PHP docs.