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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. Windows Users by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I love the slightly condescending (in binary form) for Windows users ! Says it all really.

    1. Re:Windows Users by Tony-A · · Score: 2, Funny

      So what's your point?
      "But since Windows doesn't come with a compiler,"

      Looks kinda crippled there, wouldn't you say?

  2. Improved OO! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's right, now you can say class { @P=split//,".URRUU\c8R";@d=split//,"\nrekcah xinU / lreP rehtona tsuJ";sub p{
    @p{"r$p","u$p"}=(P,P);pipe"r$p","u$p";++$p;($q *=2) +=$f=!fork;map{$P=$P[$f^ord
    ($p{$_})&6];$p{$_}=/ ^$P/ix?$P:close$_}keys%p}p;p;p;p;p;map{$p{$_}=~/^[ P.]/&&
    close$_}%p;wait until$?;map{/^r/&&<$_>}%p;$_=$d[$q];slee p rand(2)if/\S/;print }

  3. OO support by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just want to know when they're going to add OO support to as.

  4. The obligatory predictions... by UsonianAutomatic · · Score: 5, Funny
    1. PHP Sucks, Perl is a much better language.
    2. PERL sucks, PHP does most of the same stuff Perl does but you can still read your own code a week later
    3. PHP isn't a real language, it's just a bunch of wrappers thrown around stuff. PHP sucks.
    4. Who cares about MySQL support, MySQL's not a real database anyway. MySQL sucks. PostgreSQL rulez.
    5. WTF I upgraded to PHP 4.1.2 and all my form submit scripts stopped working. Whats this register_globals crap anyway what a pain.
    6. Continue with language specific criticisms; loose typing, OO not as strong as Java, et cetera.
    1. Re:The obligatory predictions... by glwtta · · Score: 4, Funny
      You forgot the obligatory followup to number 2:

      WTF is "PERL" anyway? PHP sucks, Perl rules.

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    2. Re:The obligatory predictions... by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

      You forgot one:

      7. OOP sucks, there is no proof it is better, it is only a personal choice that maps to some people's head better but not all and the reuse claim is so 80's because up-to-date OO'ers don't claim that anymore.

      If you are gonna put a troll out of business, do it right ;-)

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    3. Re:The obligatory predictions... by Shinobi · · Score: 2, Funny

      "PERL sucks, PHP does most of the same stuff Perl does but you can still read your own code a week later"

      How about "PHP doesn't require you to be drunk to be able to read and debug the code you wrote earlier the same day"?

      Been there, done that....

    4. Re:The obligatory predictions... by Xpilot · · Score: 3, Funny

      6. Continue with language specific criticisms; loose typing, OO not as strong as Java, et cetera.

      The word "loose" was used correctly in a Slashdot comment! Quick, take a picture!

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  5. Re:Kiss and say goodbye to Java language!! by j3110 · · Score: 1, Funny

    You are so right!

    I don't know why I ever thought that persistant state across a cluster of machines was a good idea. Why didn't I just send queries to the database every single page load?

    MVC is overrated. Struts and Webwork are toys so that developers don't have to do mindless work like design a web page. Taglibs are no match for cut'n'paste of PHP code.

    JDBC's gaurantee of levels of ANSI SQL compliance is stupid, who would want to use a database other than MySQL? Hibernate and JDO are silly; why would anyone want to map objects directly to rows in a database.

    JavaMail API is no match for PHP's mail sending and recieving. Who would want to support both IMAP and POP3 without writing their own code to handle each?

    I can't believe I've been using JSP and Servlets so long that I thought they were fast. No one ever uses many function calls to warrant actually including them in wholistic benchmarks. I know I've never developed anything more complicated than select * or hello world. I'm glad most of these benchmarks use BlackDown as their JRE, because we know a good JIT isn't worth the effort. Though I don't use anything complicated in my scripts, the speed of floating-point math that isn't IEEE compliant is so important, I would have a special section for it in my benchmark.

    I can see all those enterprise level companies that link their inventory, customer relation, warrenty information, and tech support altogether crying because they should have used Personal HomePage for their corperate infrastructure.

    Well, I'm going to go burn all my JSP books now that I can sleep better knowing they aren't useful. All those wonderful 404 links really clued me in to my idiocy. Thank you brave /.er for your help in making me to realize the errors of my ways.

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  6. Pining for the Fjords! by fm6 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know whether to flame you or thank you for leaving "hl=no" in that URL. I guess I should thank you, since figuring out why Google was assuming I was Norwegian was very instructive!

  7. PHP, the new "Camel" by eLoco · · Score: 2, Funny

    If PHP had an official mascot the way that Perl has the camel, I'd recommend they swap since PHP looks more like a "horse designed by committee" every day.

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