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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. For the last time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    PHP is NOT READY FOR THE DESKTOP!

    (yes lameness filter, i AM yelling)

  2. Kiss and say goodbye to Java language!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    No Java, no JSP man. Simply use PHP for web development.
    Forget Java man and go to PHP!

    PHP is 4 times faster than Java technology 'JSP' (Java server pages).
    This tallies because compiled "C" program is 4 times faster than Java.

    Moreover, PHP is getting the object oriented features of Java language.

    The real usefulness of Java is 'Java applets' which run on client browsers but on the server side you simply use PHP.

    PHP is a very lightening fast object oriented scripting language. PHP is 100% written in "C" and there is no virtual machine as in Java. Nothing can beat "C" language ("C" is a language which never dies!!)

    (Java is just another language. The PHP project needs millions of Java programmers who can add the Java's language features like inner classes, static, private, protected and others to PHP. PHP already has some of java' features).
    Java programmers will really "LOVE" PHP as PHP class is identical to Java's class keyword.

    Read the benchmars of Java JSP and PHP. PHP tops in the speed!!

    Read the doc here and mirrors at [1], [2], [3], [4].

  3. Crappy OO in older version by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll

    Wow, I read the "OO enhancements" and I was amazed they they would call it "OO enhancements" vs "adding OO capability". I've never used PHP, so I have no real basis for this flamesque statement, but: How they heck can you call a modern language OO without abstract methods, protected field/method access, pointers/references/identifiers/etc, overloading, statics, and all that? I mean really, it sounds like the only real "OO" capability older versions had was calling blocks of code a class, and very broken (read: nearly useless) inheritence.

    Without the above it's impossible (or at least a total pain in the arse) to accomplish most of the "cool" stuff in OO such as polymorphism (needs method overriding, and modular design with inheritence (if you don't have "protected" access, you can't take advantage of inheritence without breaking modularity).

    As a side note: holy sh*t, I can't believe earlier versions did call by value with OBJECTS! Talk about a poor design decision.

    Just my rant for the day...

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  11. Does it really matter? by sheldon · · Score: 0, Troll

    I mean considering Windows users already have access to ASP.NET and SQL Server, why would they waste their time with PHP and mySQL?