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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. 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.