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PHP 5.1.0 Released
kv9 writes "A new release of PHP5 is available. This version includes over 400 bugfixes, performance improvements over the 5.0.x branch, new date handling code, new versions of PCRE/SQLite/PEAR and over 30 new core/extension functions. A number of security fixes are also present and users are recommended to upgrade."
MySQL support has been droped in favor of using simple flat text files. The performance increase from this has been HUGE and the feature set is the same.
> A number of security fixes are also present
I think we've finally found a replacement for the security disaster known as sendmail -- PHP.
My other car is first.
...and still no damn fucking namespaces.
Go PHP, ride on to the 20th century!
"The way we can tell it's C# instead of Haskell is because it's nine lines instead of two." -- wadler
I've only messed around with PHP for my personal website and a small catalogue style website for my parents' business, but I noticed there were no namespaces, so I simulated them by prefixing class/function names with short prefixes, e.g. twbb_GetForumThread() etc.
I don't envisage having any problems with the new PHP core functions colliding with my names. But then maybe that's because I've worked with other languages that don't have namespaces (e.g. C, which I believe had some brief border-line success/popularity at one point, despite being crippled by lack of namespaces), and also I have a fucking clue what I'm doing. Idiots, on the other hand, will always run into problems.
That's not to say I wouldn't like to see namespaces in PHP :-)
Mod the poor guy back up, PHP's mail() function is completely retarded. I have never seen a single PHP contact form that isn't exploitable to send spam because of this nonsense.