[Tech] PHP 5 RC1 disponibile per il download

Dopo quattro versioni beta, PHP ha rilasciato la release candidate 1 di PHP 5:

Some of the key features of PHP 5 include:

• The Zend Engine II with a new object model and dozens of new features.



• XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now focused around the excellent libxml2 library (http://www.xmlsoft.org/).



• A new MySQL extension named MySQLi for developers using MySQL 4.1 and later. Additionally to a functional interface this new extension also includes an object-oriented interface and support for many of MySQL's new features such as prepared statements.



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



• A brand new built-in SOAP extension for interoperability with Web Services.



• 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.

Links: PHP 5 downloads page; PHP 5 changelog.