PHP 5.3 Released

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."

Comments

Looking Forward To It

[TheNinjaroach]

Say what you will about PHP, but it puts food on my table and a good roof over my head. I have been clamoring for the new features in PHP 5.3.0 (closures, namespaces, they finally killed register_globals) and can't wait for the improvements coming in 6.

I truly appreciate the hard work of the PHP development team and the free language they have given us, congratulations on the new release.

Re:features!

[ScytheBlade1]

Pffft. If you're going to say that, you had better include the link to the documentation: http://us.php.net/goto

... scroll down.......

Horray

[neoform]

So does this mean I should upgrade from PHP 3.2? Are there any incompatibilities with my existing code?

Maybe someone can look over my login script and tell me if this will work in PHP5?

$query_login="select * FROM user";
$result_login = mysql_query($query_login) or die("Your passwrod is might be bad I think");
//$login_check = mysql_num_rows($result_login);
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result_login))
{
$username=$row["username"];
if ($username==$username1)
{
echo "";
echo "window.location.href='login_error.php?rec=qq';";
echo "";
exit;
}
}

Re:Horray

[Anonymous Coward]

If you can't tell that the parent post is a joke you're probably a PHP programmer.

Re:new features in php 5.3

[amicusNYCL]

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

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

Re:Would you let it die already?

[iluvcapra]

I think if the functions, calling conventions and naming were regularized

...and they removed the sigils, and removed the silent type coercion, and eliminated the "@" function prefix, and removed the "global" keyword, and removed the weird "list" lvalue function that looks-like-functional-pattern-matching-but-really-just-cosmetically, and fixed the pass-by-reference semantic...

But if you did all of these things, it really wouldn't be PHP anymore.