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PHP 5.3 Released

Posted by timothy on from the phffp-phffp-phffp dept.

Sudheer writes "The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes. Some of the key new features include: namespaces, late static binding, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions (like ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo), over 140 bug fixes and much more."

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  1. Hooray fileinfo is standard! by Majik+Sheff · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Now I don't have to do a song and dance of ugly hacks to get what I need from a file on systems without the extention.

    Oh wait, almost any PHP project eventually gets reduced to a song and dance of ugly hacks.

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    1. Re:Hooray fileinfo is standard! by plague3106 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Heh... is it still just inline scripting, or did they come up with embedable contorls, like Asp.net or the java equivolent?

  2. Re:Looking Forward To It by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    PHP is the "new VB". Visual Basic had the stigma that anyone who touched it was a retard and anything produced by it would be retarded. But just like PHP, it was because people with no coding background started with it. It does a whole lot of complicated things for you AND you can still find ways to shoot yourself and coworkers in the face. Ultimately though, if you truly were competent, you could produce some solid work. It's like racism, only toward developers of language X.

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