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.

 

 

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