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PHP 5 Beta 1

Posted by michael on from the php-is-good-for-you dept.

Sterling Hughes writes "The PHP development community is proud to announce the release of PHP 5 Beta 1. Downloads are available in both source and binary form (for Windows users). A full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog. Some of the new features include much improved OO support, completely revamped XML support, and the default inclusion of SQLite."

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  1. Re:Turning into Java? by poptones · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    PHP still has this->absurdly ugly syntax. It's a pain in the ass to type, and it's an eyesore.

    fuck PHP.

  2. Re:Yeah Yeah... by Christianfreak · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    For all your complaints about Perl, its still far better than PHP because of the namespace and extentablity issues alone. Besides PHP derived its syntax from Perl (they wanted to 'fix' Perl). As for mod_perl, at first it was hard to get into but they've made a ton of improvements, most times if you've used 'strict' and followed good coding practice your CGI will plug right into mod_perl with no changes. mod_perl lets you do cool things with Apache as well.

    All of this is IMHO of course. My biggest complaint about PHP is the joke that they pass as "error handling". Yeah great, thanks for exposing all my path names to the outside world if something goes wrong. And sure you can turn it off but then you never know if something went wrong. Here's a hint, how about using the error_log like everyone else, and properly stop parsing and send a code 500 to the webserver??

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