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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. Re:new features in php 5.3 by amicusNYCL · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can also read the official release announcement instead of some random guy's blog.

    http://php.net/releases/5_3_0.php

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    "Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
  2. Re:Nuisances by Stan+Vassilev · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's a huge codebase out there that's using PHP against MySQL, and using PHP's original ereg regex syntax instead of the Perl-wannabe stuff. What are they thinking, when they set out to break this?

    Nothing is broken. Ereg is moved to the 'official' extension pack called PECL, which you can use for full backwards compatibility. At the same time the community has been warning not to use the ereg functions for the past at least 3-4 years, if not more, citing worse performance, worse featureset, and the possibility of PCRE replacing it at some point in the future.