Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

PHP 5.1.0 Released

Posted by Zonk on from the hello-darkness-my-old-friend dept.

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."

2 of 275 comments (clear)

  1. Beware of PHP 5.1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    You don't have any classes named Date, do you? It's an extremely uncommon name. Good thing we have namespaces.

    http://news.php.net/php.internals/20352

  2. OO by smallguy78 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I use to use PHP a lot day to day for several years (lamp), and found it kicked the ass of ASP for doing really fast web apps. Bigger web applications however, is where its mechanics started to erode - specically includes and the old module level variables issue.

    PHP 5 brought more OO features but it's still loosely typed and not compiled, meaning its OO features pale in comparison to JSP and ASP.NET. Until these two features are added by default (yes I know there are compilers), I can't really see how people will want to make use of its OO features in a business scenario. It handles strings (atleast in 4) about 50x slower than .net and seems to be stuck between a scripting language and a fully fledged OO language.

    --
    Nothing costs nothing