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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. 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 }

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

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

  3. 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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  4. 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?

  5. 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!

  6. 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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