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PHP 5 RC 1 released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-your-develop-on dept.

An anonymous reader writes "PHP just released the first release candidate of PHP 5 after 4 beta releases. It is considered stable and feature-complete -- so get testing!"

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  1. Re:Power Power Power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's funny, I remember when it was a main tenet of programming that data should be separate from presentation. However, PHP has shown just how powerful integrating data and presentation can be through inlining code directly into a webpage layout.

    Try something complicated. You'll change your tune right quick.

  2. Re:Power Power Power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Powerful is one thing, maintainable another.

    Keeping data and presentation separate is still the best thing to do. But that's why we have CSS. So unless you're still using tables, font tags or whatnot, you're not integrating data and presentation.

  3. Re:Power Power Power [where's my perl!?!] by Telastyn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Huh?

    Having been a big PHP fan, let me assure you that PHP has a strong central theme like a kleptomaniac with ADD has a strong attention span.

    Having been a big PHP fan, every story about PHP releases reminds me of the page long list of vulnerabilities and issues under it's entry in netbsd's package listing.

    Having since moved to perl, I'm wondering if those death throes you're talking about are the same ones that haven't arrived on my BSD machine yet...

  4. Re:Power Power Power by kevin_conaway · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Umm, Perl is not dead or dying. It may not be used as much as it used to for CGI programming but in the world of system administrators, it is still very much alive and even growing. An admin without perl is making his or her life much worse than it could be

  5. Re:significant changes by Carl+T · · Score: 5, Insightful
    the semantics regarding object assignment have changed from copy to reference

    Sounds to me like the migration to PHP 5 will be a long and painful one. The project I've been working on in PHP for the last couple of years sure could use some of the new features, and if what another poster said about responsiveness translates to higher speed, that's another reason to switch. Then again, looking through megs of PHP code for things that are suddenly ever so slightly broken because of subtle language changes is not exactly fun.

    For new projects, OTOH, I don't see much reason to stick with PHP 4, except the horrors of having to instruct users that they need to upgrade their PHP interpreter(s) again.

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  6. Unicode by UnConeD · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So does PHP5 have proper Unicode support, or are we still supposed to pretend that you can treat UTF8 as ASCII and that it will 'just work'?

  7. Connection pooling ? by vlad_petric · · Score: 4, Insightful

    All the OO features are nice, but what's really missing in PHP are some critical "enteprise" features, like true connection pooling (and no, pconnect doesn't count).

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