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PHP 5 Release Candidate 2 Released

Posted by timothy on from the pronounced-with-lips dept.

alexre1 writes "From the PHP website: 'The second Release Candidate of PHP 5 is now available! This mostly bug fix release improves PHP 5's stability and irons out some of the remaining issues before PHP 5 can be deemed release quality. Note that it is still not recommended for mission-critical use but people are encouraged to start playing with it and report any problems.' Cool! Hopefully we'll have a stable PHP 5.0 soon."

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  1. PHP5 by Leffe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I run PHP5 on one of my developer boxes(I should install it on the other one too, but I'm lazy), and as far as I know it's completely back-compatible(except from some new reserved keywords, but that's easy to fix). All the new features are really nice, and I have to say that I noticed a tiny gain in speed too.

    There's no reason not to switch to PHP5, everyone please do it now! Writing back-compatible code is no fun, I want to use all the new and exciting OOP features.

    Here's a page describing all the new features in PHP5 and the ZEND engine version 2!

    1. Re:PHP5 by eddy+the+lip · · Score: 5, Interesting
      ...and as far as I know it's completely back-compatible(except from some new reserved keywords, but that's easy to fix)

      If this is true, it takes away one of my major fears about PHP5. They haven't exactly been careful about this in the past, and there's been more than one occasion where I was franticaly updating mounds of code because they decided something should be spelled different.

      I've been keeping half an eye on the changes, and the only thing that had twigged as a possible issue so far was in classes, especially changing the default contstructor. Changing the name of a constructor isn't a big deal in itself, but I'd be doing it in a lot of code, distributed across many, many sites. I'd be very happy to put this particular fear to rest.

      That aside, I am looking forward to the new OOP features. 95% of what I write is OOP, and there are some things in there I've been wanting for a long time.

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      This is the voice of World Control. I bring you Peace.

  2. Re:hello?!? by mercuriser · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's going to be even better then that!

    PHP5 comes with its very own integrated 'lite' sql server that can handle simple queries very very quickly.

    The decision to implement SQLite into PHP5 is "good for small and mid-sized applications, because the database lives on the same server as the application that is using it"

  3. Re:hello?!? by jasoncart · · Score: 5, Informative

    What about MySQL 5? Stored procedures seems to be the biggest new feature...