PHP 5 Released

Lincoln Russell 21 Jul, 2004 at 11:29pm ET Article published in Tech

PHP 5 (final) was released on July 13. Better late to the story than never…

New features 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 SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML as PHP objects. It can also interface with the DOM extension and vice-versa.
– A brand new built-in SOAP extension for interoperability with Web Services.

Looks like another gold star for Zend Technologies.

Source: PHP.net

Comments

22 Jul 2004 ~ 12:33pm BLuKnight I've been looking forward to the new release of PHP. Finally, I get to use try/catch/throw blocks. Woohoo!
22 Jul 2004 ~ 1:06pm Shorty Sadly

There are no "throw" blocks :bawling:

Does have try/catch though .. and things like implement, abstract and proper destructors
22 Jul 2004 ~ 1:22pm MediaMan Quick...let's switch platforms now that the sites humming along nicely! I haven't heard a "bork" or a "spoink" in a long time.
22 Jul 2004 ~ 1:35pm Shorty

MediaMan wrote:

Quick...let's switch platforms now that the sites humming along nicely! I haven't heard a "bork" or a "spoink" in a long time.

Me and the main man -tk have already had that conversation this week

Patience young jedi.. it will come
22 Jul 2004 ~ 1:35pm Enverex Just a quick question, would something made in PHP4 still work in PHP5 or have they broken lots of the backwards compatability?
22 Jul 2004 ~ 2:09pm Shorty

Enverex wrote:

Just a quick question, would something made in PHP4 still work in PHP5 or have they broken lots of the backwards compatability?

Unless you are using really old superglobals (http_get_vars, http_post_vars) or use register globals=on .. 99% of all scripts will work
22 Jul 2004 ~ 9:49pm Jengo hmm

*is very confused*

*runs away crying like a school girl*