PHP 5.0.0 Beta 2 released

PHP 5.0.0 Beta 2 has been released. This is the first feature complete version of PHP 5, and we recommend for PHP users to try it. PHP 5 is still not ready for production use!

Some of the more major changes include:

  • PHP 5 features the Zend Engine 2.

  • XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now

    focused around the excellent libxml2 library (https://www.xmlsoft.org/).

  • SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite, please

    visit their website.

  • 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.

There have been many changes since Beta 1, some of them documented in the NEWS

file and most language changes are documented in ZEND_CHANGES

News source: PHP.net

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