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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. 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 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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