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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:Hooray fileinfo is standard! by nedwidek · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    PHP as I told a manager is useful because it is ubiquitous, not because it is perfect or even particularly good. At the time I worked on a derivative of GForge, which is a definite example of the horrors that can come from PHP projects.

    This is also an original quote by me: "The beauty of PHP is that it is so simple even an idiot can program with it. The problem with PHP is that so many idiots do choose to program in it."

    In my own hosting, I have the choice of using RoR, but the app must be manually redeployed if the server is restarted. So I use CakePHP instead because PHP will be instantly available. :P

    5.3 should be cool, now I just need to start pestering my hosting providers about upgrading.

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