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The PHP development team is proud to announce the release of PHP 5 Release
Candidate 1.
Some of the key features of PHP 5 include:
- The Zend Engine II with a new object model and dozens of new features.
- XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now
focused around the excellent libxml2 library (http://www.xmlsoft.org/). - A new MySQL extension named MySQLi for developers using MySQL 4.1 and
later. Additionally to a functional interface this new extension also
includes an object-oriented interfaced and support for many of MySQL's new
features such as prepared statements. - SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite, please
visit their website. - A brand new built-in SOAP extension for interoperability with Web Services.
- A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML as
PHP objects. It can also interface with the DOM extension and vice-versa. - Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access
low-level socket operations on streams. - And lots more...
PHP 5 is now feature complete and quite stable. The purpose of the release
candidate is to start widespread testing and use in non-mission critical
applications.
Enjoy!