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Tuesday, July 13, 2004

PHP 5 released!

We all had a feeling it was coming really soon now, what with the last-and-probably-final release candidate being on June 8, as well as because of some other intangible things, but PHP 5 has been released.

I can't wait until my host installs it so I can play

Update: Check out Zend's PHP 5 center, and this in depth look at what's new in the Zend Engine II (which powers PHP 5).

PHP is a much different language this time around. I just noticed for the first time that it has Python-like overloading features. Also check out this stuff about PHP 5's improved XML support.

Update: Here's a really detailed article on Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5.

Permalink | 6 Comments | Tags: Programming | id 5006

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edited: 2004-07-17 02:05 (utc-4)

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Which host is that? They must not care about BC since they upgrade from PHP4 to PHP5 in the blink of an eye

Just wondering.

Hosting Matters. There's a button down at the bottom

They must not care about BC since they upgrade from PHP4 to PHP5 in the blink of an eye

Care about BC? What's BC? Backward compatibility? PHP 5 is mostly backward compatible. But, who says they'll upgrade in the blink of an eye? I expect them to wait until at least one patch release is out before upgrading.

∴ Keith | 13-Jul-2004 8:21pm est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #4993

Dang, register_ns() has been taken out in PHP 5's simpleXML as compared to RC3. What the ... ?

∴ Alexander | 13-Jul-2004 11:04pm est | http://shelter.nu/ | #4994

What, so SimpleXML doesn't handle namespaces now?? How do you know that the function has been removed?

∴ Keith | 14-Jul-2004 11:58am est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #4996

Well, I had http://shelter.nu/blog-094.html working in both RC 2 and 3, and now I just installed 5.0.0 and I got errors that the method didn't exist. Looking up php.net/simplexml yeilds nothing (in fact, register_ns isn't found at all at the php.net site), and the articles I dug that out from were from when RC2 got released. sigh

It looks like it doesn't handle namespaces. Not calling register_ns() for the namespaces in question yields no result from simpleXML at all. I've searched around, but I can't find anything apart from people saying "use register_ns()". Duh.

∴ Alexander | 15-Jul-2004 5:42am est | http://shelter.nu/ | #5004

registerNamespace() has been added to SimpleXML and will be in 5.1: http://blog.bitflux.ch/p1746.html

It's pretty silly that SimpleXML doesn't handle namespaces. It's especially silly because SimpleXML was one of the big touted new features of PHP 5, yet it seems like it's mostly useless for much (most?) XML out there.

∴ Keith | 25-Jul-2004 1:18pm est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #5083

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