PHP 5 Beta Hits the Streets

[Brett_Tabke]

[php.net...]

[29-Jun-2003] The PHP development community is proud to announce the release of PHP 5 Beta 1. Both source packages, and a Windows build are available in the Downloads Section. A list of changes can be found in the ChangeLog file.

[Hester]

Wow, some great new changes here!

Improved the speed of internal functions that use callbacks by 40% due to a new internal fast_call_user_function() function

SQLite has been bundled with PHP

XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now focused around the excellent libxml2 library

# Brand new Simplexml extension
# New DOM extension
# New XSL extension

Improved the GD extension:

* imagefilter() - Apply different filters to image.

Antialiased drawing support:

* imageantialias() - (de)active antialias
* imageline() and imagepolygon() antialias support

[lorax]

WOW! Now this will be a fun build to play with! Thanks for the heads up BT!

[bcolflesh]

Interesting reading on /. about this release:

PHP 5 Beta 1 [slashdot.org]

Regards,
Brent

[jatar_k]

strangely they removed it from the php.net main page in the last day or so, though I'm not sure why.

[Hester]

It's still there?