PHP5 is out now and i just wanted to say well done to the php dev team. PHP5 is a huge leap forward and it will be interesting to see if the type of support questions shifts towards more OOP type stuff now
(4.3.8 is also out by the way)
Also, if you're looking for a decent book talking about the new PHP5 stuff then i recommend this.
Last edited by markl999 on Wed Jul 14, 2004 3:53 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Is PHP5 downward compatible?
I mean does it save its documents in a different format?
And what about disabling Macros? I heard that Macros could be viri.
Will that little paperclip PHP Assistant be there as well asking me:
"Hi, I see you are writing a PHP-script. Do you want to
a) use ASP-style tags?
b) learn more about .NET?
c) read about Visual Basic?
EDIT: this is an ironic post.
Last edited by patrikG on Wed Jul 14, 2004 6:36 am, edited 2 times in total.
Hi
Has anyone here tried php5 on Windows ? There were many complaints regarding the access violation error at address #xxxxxx.
If anyone is saying its TOTALLY working with windows now then I'll download it. They should have some new extension like php5 or something so that we can run both php4 and and php5 scripts alongside. Otherwise I'll have to keep making config changes if the access violation errror still exits. http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=28799
I have a Windoze box which currently has the following versions installed.... 4.1.2, 4.3.3, 4.3.4, 4.3.6, 4.3.7 and 5.0.0
They obviously don't all run simultaneously but I have no problems running any version I want with either apache 2.x or 1.3.x
It is obviously early days to state that I have no problems with PHP5 release and it is totally working but I have been running PHP5 release candidates of various flavours with no problems thus far.
kettle_drum wrote:What databsae support do you peeps think you will be using now? mySQL, postgre, sqlite?
All of the above. I'm in the process of moving my MySQL stuff over to PostgreSQL (for the more demanding stuff) and SQLite (for the less demanding stuff). I've been quite impressed with SQLite in the little time I've been playing with it but one thing I have noticed is that the error messages you get back from it are a little too vague for my liking. There is nothing wrong with MySQL, I don't think the fact that support is not built in any more is a major issue. I don't think we will see loads of people flocking to PostgreSQL either as there is not a Win32 binary distribution and building the source under Win32 is a complete nightmare (or at least that was the case the last time I did it).
In all honesty, I'm not getting too excited by the release of PHP5 as considering there are still plenty of production servers running PHPv 4.1.x and 4.2.x the likelyhood of PHP5 becoming the version the majority are using is a long way off (in my opinion).