PHP 5.0 Released!
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The PHP team is proud to announce the final release of PHP 5!
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Some of the key features of PHP 5 include:
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The Zend Engine II
with a new object model and dozens of new features.
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XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now
focused around the excellent libxml2 library
(http://www.xmlsoft.org/).
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A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML as
PHP objects. It can also interface with the DOM extension and vice-versa.
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A brand new built-in SOAP extension for interoperability with Web Services.
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A new MySQL extension named MySQLi for developers using MySQL 4.1 and later.
This new extension includes an object-oriented interface in addition to
a traditional interface; as well as support for many of MySQL's new features,
such as prepared statements.
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SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite,
please visit their website.
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Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access
low-level socket operations on streams.
- And lots more...
For changes since Release Candidate 3, please consult the
ChangeLog.
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