PHP 5 Released

So the long-awaited PHP5 is finally out. I can’t wait to play around with this baby when I find time for it.

Some of the key features of PHP 5 include:

  • A better Zend Engine II
  • Better XML support focused around the excellent libxml2 library.
  • SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML as PHP objects.
  • A brand new built-in SOAP extension for interoperability with Web Services.
  • SQLite has been bundled with PHP. (After all MySQL sold out and went commercial on them)
  • Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access low-level socket operations on streams.

Obviously, like all other programming languages, PHP is moving more and more towards the whole web services model and making it easier to use PHP for such stuff.

[More: PHP.net]

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Mohamed Marwen Meddah

Mohamed Marwen Meddah is a Tunisian-Canadian, web aficionado, software engineering leader, blogger, and amateur photographer.

10 thoughts on “PHP 5 Released”

  2. That’s ok 🙂

    PHP is an open source web programming language.

    Being someone with a computer science and programming background, I tend to get a bit excited about new stuff coming out.

  3. WOW…php rules 😛
    php is my fav server side programming language and the most powerful one coz of its support to almost everything…my project in PL course was about PHP 5 but the new thing for me is SQLite!!!

  4. SQLite is another open source database that the PHP people turned to after MySQL decided to go commercial with MySQL 5.
    For more about it you can check out:
    http://sqlite.org/

    So, tell me where are u from? and where did/do you study IT/Computer Science?

  7. I am Tunisian. I lived in Jordan for 6 years where I studied Computer Science in the University of Jordan then worked for 2 years.

    Now I’m back home in Tunisia working at a web development company as Quality Manager.

    I wish you the best of luck with your studies 🙂 You’re almost done.
    Are you enjoying it?
    And what have been your favourite subjects?

  8. ya sure i enjoy it
    i like DBMS and web DB applications courses and every thing related to web development, i enjoy programming in general and i am in the university programming team and inshala we’ll participate in the regional programming contest in kuwait

  9. Cool 🙂

    I wish you good luck in the contest 🙂

    I never knew there was a regional programming contest in Kuwait.
    When did they start doing this? Is it yearly? Who won the last time?

  10. yes it is yaerly, this year and the last year the Africa and the Middle East contest was in kuwait and the winners were from egypt (i think from AUC)
    u can know more about it here

    http://acm.kuniv.edu/2003/website/

    and the previous two years it was in egypt, winners selected from regional contests on six continents will advance to the ACM Programming Contest World Finals

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