PHP 5 Released
July 16, 2004
PHP 5 has finally been released. A few small bugs were fixed from Release Candidate 3 and it's now official. What's in it – well for starters there's a new Zend engine, new XML support, a new MySQL extension, and you get SQLite (a SQL database engine that can be embedded directly into your applications) bundled in the download.
Check out Allan Kent's guide to installing PHP5 on Windows.
Related DMXzone articles:
SQLite: new PHP-bundled database
SQLite 2: The Killer Features (and the sadly lacking)>
Get all the details from the PHP Home page >>
Following a degree in Chemistry and a doctorate in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Ian spent several years wrestling with acronyms in industrial R&D (SEM with a side order of EDS, AFM and TEM augmented with a topping of XPS and SIMS and yet more SEM and TEM).
Feeling that he needed a career with more terminology but less high voltages, Ian became a technical/commissioning editor with Wrox Press working on books as diverse as Beg VB Application Development and Professional Java Security. After Wrox's dissolution and a few short term assignments Ian became content manager at DMXzone.
Ian is a refugee from the industrial Black Country having slipped across the border to live in Birmingham. In his spare time he helps out with the website of a local history society, tries to makes sure he does what his wife Kate says, and worries that the little 'un Noah is already more grown up than he is.
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