PHP5 Beta 2

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PHP5 Beta 3 Released!

PHP5 Beta 3 Released! 12/21/2003 09:35 PM
PHP5 Beta 3, One more step in the road to a stable PHP 5.

PHP5 Beta 2 Released!

PHP5 Beta 2 Released! 10/30/2003 06:07 PM
First Feature Complete Version of PHP5!

A stroll in the park with PHP5 beta 4

A stroll in the park with PHP5 beta 4 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
Over the past few days, I have had an opportunity to do more testing with PHP5b4.

I'm glad that most of my testing was on Windows because I don't have to compile anything on Windows to get PHP5 working. But I had to try things out on Linux too because I'm writing an article for PHP-Magazine.

Testing on Linux was really painful. One gotcha is PHP4. After compiling PHP5 on our Linux box it kept on crashing when I restarted apache. Finally I remembered that you can run the command line interface version of PHP (in php5/sapi/cli/), which gives somewhat more helpful error messages, and discovered that PHP5 was trying to load PHP4's php.ini.

Apart from the PHP4 gotcha, I had to download a newer version of libxml2 for PHP5 to compile. I downloaded the latest libxml2, only to find that out 2.6.6 was not supported by PHP5 (it wouldn't link). I had to rollback a few versions and retrieve libxml2.5.11 instead. - I must have screwed up something else, PHP5b4 works fine with libxml2 2.6.6.

Now i don't dare recompile PHP4, because it probably requires libxml2 2.4. Ugh, the joys of Unix development.

More highlights of PHP5b4:

I'm not a big fan of XML, but I have been trying out simplexml, and it really is as simple as promised.

I also did some benchmarks. I'm pleasantly surprised that in some operations, such as looping, PHP5b4 is already faster than PHP4.

PHP5 by the end of the week?

PHP5 by the end of the week? 07/06/2004 03:06 AM

PHP5.0.1 Released!

PHP5.0.1 Released! 08/13/2004 03:57 PM
The PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.0.1. This is a maintenance release that in addition to many non-critical bug fixes also includes new UNIX and Windows installation docs which are now auto-generated from the PHP Manual.

PHP5: Could PHP Soon Be Owned by Sun?

PHP5: Could PHP Soon Be Owned by Sun? 08/06/2004 06:53 PM
Slashdot Aug 6 2004 10:55PM GMT

DataAccessObjects (DAO) for PHP5

DataAccessObjects (DAO) for PHP5 01/04/2005 12:31 AM
first release

An overview of PHP5

An overview of PHP5 03/11/2003 09:44 AM
I have spent the last few days playing around with PHP5?I'm preparing some material on it and I wanted to take a first-hand look at how it works and what it can do.My first impressions is that it's a giant leap forward from many perspectives, although the new OOP model ...

A Review of PHP5

A Review of PHP5 02/26/2003 12:28 PM
PHP5 is comming closer and closer, and with that the Zend engine2.0 will change on how PHP handles OOP. To be ready for this I have made a overview of the new features that will be available when PHP5 finally arrives. I am also looking into creating extentions for PHP, and when my C skills gets a bit better I will try to dig through the source of the Zend engine and figure out what is what there. But for now I have some examples that should show you how the new features will affect you as a programmer when PHP5 arrives. -- Håvard Eide

Link thx to php developer

"zeldman.herself1"

When will PHP5 be stable?

When will PHP5 be stable? 07/09/2004 05:17 AM

Testing PHP5

Testing PHP5 02/16/2004 03:36 AM
Now that PHP5 beta 4 has been released, it might be useful to share how we all do our testing of different PHP versions.

We find it quite bothersome to reconfigure our web server(s) everytime we want to switch between different versions of PHP4 and PHP5. So we have automated all our testing on Windows using the command-line interface to PHP5.

PHP5 beta 4 allows us to define a php.ini configuration file in the same directory as the php.exe executable. We will first modify php.ini, setting extension_dir and include_dir, and enable the appropriate extension=* settings. Then we have a standard DOS batch file that will run php.exe and unit-test ADOdb (the database abstraction library for PHP that I maintain). The output is generated to rez.html.

The last line of the batch file opens the resultant html file in IE. The "start" command will attempt to open any file if the extension mapping exists, e.g. "start rez.html".

The only disadvantage of this approach is that you are not testing PHP5's long-term interaction with the web server, and you need to have an existing set of unit tests that can be automated. This might not be possible if you testing mostly user interface code.

And what do i think of PHP5 beta 4? Two thumbs up. Didn't have to change anything in ADOdb to make it work with beta 4.

Sample DOS Batch File

Note: Each release of php5 is kept in its own sub-directory (c:php5php5b1, c:php5php5b2, etc). Tests are in d:phpadodbtests.

c:
cd php5
del *.html
cd php5b4
d:
cd phpadodbtests
c:php test.php testmysql > c:php5rez.html
c:php test.php testoracle > c:php5rez2.html
c:
cd ..
start rez.html
start rez2.html

PHP5 contest

PHP5 contest 06/03/2004 06:44 AM
to my friends at Zend: our MT contest has cooler prizes

phpBB-php5 MOD

phpBB-php5 MOD 07/29/2004 06:38 PM
New forum Up!

PHP5 Information Available

PHP5 Information Available 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
Håvard Eide has collected (thanks to PHPDeveloper for the link), all available PHP5 information from various places and placed it onto his web site. Now, for the first time, you get to see why you need to look forward to this new version (be sure to click on the links to the right, there are many pages available).

DynamicWebPages: Furthering the PHP5
Cause

DynamicWebPages: Furthering the PHP5
Cause 11/13/2003 08:49 AM
DynamicWebPages.de has a new posting this morning about a mailing list they are starting to try to further the growth and beta testers for the PHP5 Beta releases that have been posted.

PHP5-DEV Mailing List

PHP5-DEV Mailing List 01/26/2003 01:11 PM

Presto Poll 5.0 (PHP5)

Presto Poll 5.0 (PHP5) 09/26/2004 08:42 PM
A poll system with an admin center.

Noas php5 Framework

Noas php5 Framework 01/04/2005 09:04 AM
Noas php5 Framework Provision

NYPHP.org: OOP in PHP5 Through Patterns

NYPHP.org: OOP in PHP5 Through Patterns 06/28/2004 08:11 AM
PHP Magazine and NYPHP.org have a link this morning to George Schlossnagle's recent talk at their previous meeting concerning Object-Oriented Programming in PHP 5 Through Patterns

PHP5: Ready For The Enterprise?

PHP5: Ready For The Enterprise? 12/12/2002 12:27 AM
The Open Enterprise talks about PHP5."My love affair with PHP started, I suspect, the same way it does with most people. I simply started using it. PHP's short learning curve and easy syntax makes it approachable by anyone who has ever used a scripting language. Its power comes from how it simplifies the task of building Web applications because PHP isn't just a scripting language, it's a Web scripting language."

PHP5 Development Plan

PHP5 Development Plan 02/02/2003 12:42 PM
Now it is official. Since a couple of weeks ago, the work on the PHP5 branch of development has started. The year 2003 will be the year of PHP5; it is expected in Q3/Q4 this year. The question on everyone's mind is: What will the new version of PHP bring?

XML-'Reloaded' PHP5 Released

XML-'Reloaded' PHP5 Released 07/14/2004 01:47 PM
Internet News Jul 14 2004 5:42PM GMT

Ming + PHP5 + AI = Pretty

Ming + PHP5 + AI = Pretty 06/09/2004 02:38 AM

backwards-incompatible changes in PHP5

backwards-incompatible changes in PHP5 08/08/2004 03:25 PM
a surprisingly short list, given all the improvements in PHP5

Mach-II 0.1.3 (PHP5 branch)

Mach-II 0.1.3 (PHP5 branch) 04/08/2005 10:30 AM
Mach-II is an open source framework for building Web applications. It is an object oriented, event-based, implicit invocation Web application framework implementing true Model-View-Controller (MVC) for separation of business logic and presentation.  It helps developers deliver scalable and easy-to-maintain applications.

PHPEverywhere: Is PHP5 Good to Go?

PHPEverywhere: Is PHP5 Good to Go? 09/21/2004 08:14 AM
From PHPEverywhere:

Zend's New PHP5 Info Center

Zend's New PHP5 Info Center 04/09/2004 03:58 PM
PHP 5 brings along a host of new features and major improvements like you've grown to expect from past major versions. Answering the need for scalable development architectures in the Enterprise, PHP 5 boasts the new Zend Engine 2, which includes a brand new object model, allowing for the development of large-scale, maintainable object oriented applications. PHP 5 also introduces new revolutionary ways of dealing with XML that make it the ideal platform for XML processing—no other solution comes even close! Complementary to the new XML features is the new SOAP module, allowing interoperability with Web Services via a fast and easy-to-use API.

The list of goodies in PHP 5 goes on and on: built-in server-independent SQL support using SQLite, new high-performance and more secure MySQL support, all-new COM/.NET support, and lots more.

Given this long list of new features, we're confident that you're just as excited about the next generation of PHP as we are! To make things even snappier, we came up with this new PHP 5 section of Zend.com's DeveloperZone. The section will allow you to get PHP 5 information right from the source, discover PHP 5's various new features, as well as learn how to migrate from earlier versions of PHP. -- Zeev and Andi.

This appears to be an excellent resource. Pity I'm too busy at work to look at it. I have received a copy of George's Advanced PHP book too. I will try to review it when my schedule permits. Time is tight. Now where was that cloning device i got for Christmas...

revjim.net: On PHP5 (and the Promised
Land)

revjim.net: On PHP5 (and the Promised
Land) 02/17/2004 10:34 AM
To make light of the whole "coming of PHP5" that everyone is looking forward to, the Reverend Jim has a new posting that every one out there looking forward to PHP5 might want to read.

Apache2-SSL-PHP5 and Zend Optimizer

Apache2-SSL-PHP5 and Zend Optimizer 06/05/2005 11:38 PM
Here is an article describing how to install an Apache web server (2.0.x) with SSL and PHP5 (with Zend Optimizer and ionCube Loader) enabled. All software is compiled from the sources. In addition to that, the article also shows how to install the Zend Optimizer and IonCube Loader and use it with your PHP installation. http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_apache2_ssl_php5_zendoptimizer_ioncube loader

The PRADO component framework for PHP5

The PRADO component framework for PHP5 09/03/2004 04:11 PM
PRADO v1.0 beta released

internetnews.com: XML-'Reloaded' PHP5
Released

internetnews.com: XML-'Reloaded' PHP5
Released 07/14/2004 06:58 PM
"Apache-backed PHP Group, which oversees one of the most popular open source scripting languages, officially released PHP version 5.0 Tuesday..." More details on what's new in PHP 5.

Itn'l PHP Conference: XML in PHP5
Presentation

Itn'l PHP Conference: XML in PHP5
Presentation 05/04/2004 07:55 AM
In a link from this morning, there's a note about Christian Stocker's slides from the International PHP Conference 2004 given yesterday.

TheOpenEnterprise.com: PHP5: Ready For
The Enterprise?

TheOpenEnterprise.com: PHP5: Ready For
The Enterprise? 12/11/2002 04:19 PM
"PHP's short learning curve and easy syntax makes it approachable by anyone who has ever used a scripting language. Its power comes from how it simplifies the task of building Web applications because PHP isn't just a scripting language, it's a Web scripting language..."

PHP5 Keyword Table for TopStyle

PHP5 Keyword Table for TopStyle 05/03/2004 06:00 PM

Stefano F. Rausch has created a keyword table for TopStyle Pro 3.10 that adds syntax highlighting for PHP5 keywords. Just download this ZIP file and unzip it into TopStyle's \keywords subfolder, then go to the Editor > Keyword Tables page in TopStyle's options and enable the PHP5 item. Thanks, Stefano!

phpWebmin - Webmin clone in PHP5

phpWebmin - Webmin clone in PHP5 08/21/2004 07:41 AM
phpWebmin Yuna (Dev) Released!

Proactive Coding: Prepare you XML for
PHP5

Proactive Coding: Prepare you XML for
PHP5 07/05/2004 04:29 AM

Another step closer to PHP5 - PHP
4.3.5RC2 now released!

Another step closer to PHP5 - PHP
4.3.5RC2 now released! 02/10/2004 02:42 AM
PHP 4.3.5RC2 has been released for testing! This is likely to be the last release candidate prior to the final release, so please test it as much as possible.

One step closer to PHP5 - PHP 4.3.4RC1
now released!

One step closer to PHP5 - PHP 4.3.4RC1
now released! 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
PHP 4.3.4RC1 has been released for testing. This release focuses on stability through bug fixes. It is recommended to test it as much as possible on real-life applications in case there are any issues.

PHPEverywhere: Is PHP5 ready for Rover
or Fifi?

PHPEverywhere: Is PHP5 ready for Rover
or Fifi? 06/21/2004 07:38 AM
PHPEverywhere (now at it's new location - see this post for more information) has a new interesting bit pulled from a message on one of the PHP newsgroups concerning their use of PHP 5.
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