Software-update: PHP 5.0.0 beta 2

Vandaag hebben de developers van PHP de tweede betaversie van 5.0.0 uitgebracht. In deze release vinden we onder meer Zend Engine 2, verbeterde XML-support en SQLite. Daarnaast zijn er nieuwe features toegevoegd en een reeks bugs verholpen. Het volledig changelog ziet er als volgt uit:

Some of the more major changes include:

• PHP 5 features the Zend Engine 2.
• XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now focused around the excellent libxml2 library (http://www.xmlsoft.org/).
• SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite, please visit their website.
• 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.

30 Oct 2003, PHP 5 Beta 2

• Lots and lots of changes in the Zend Engine 2 since beta 1:
  • Added Iterators
  • Improved memory manager
  • Added Reflection API
  • Removed the not so working namespaces support
  • Removed support for expressions within constant declerations.
  • You can read about most changes in ZEND_CHANGES under the Zend directory.
• Improved the DBX extension: (Marc)
  • Added DBX_RESULT_UNBUFFERED flag for dbx_query().
  • Added dbx_fetch_row()
  • Added SQLite support.
• Improved the Interbase extension: (Ard Biesheuvel)
  • Added support for multiple databases into ibase_trans()
  • Added support for CREATE DATABASE, SET TRANSACTION and EXECUTE PROCEDURE statements into ibase_query()
  • Added ibase_commit_ret() and ibase_rollback_ret()
  • Added ibase_drop_db()
  • Added ibase_gen_id()
  • Added ibase_name_result()
  • Added ibase_errcode()
  • Added ibase_affected_rows() and ibase_num_params()
  • Added ibase_param_info()
  • Added ibase_wait_event()
• Added ibase_set_event_handler() and ibase_free_event_handler()
• Added new COM extension with integrated .Net support. (Wez)
• Added new functions:
  • setrawcookie(). (Brian)
  • pg_version(). (Marcus)
  • dbase_get_header_info(). (Zak)
  • snmp_read_mib(). (Jani)
  • http_build_query(). (Sara)
  • ftp_alloc(). (Sara)
  • array_udiff(). (Andrey)
  • array_udiff_assoc(). (Andrey)
  • array_udiff_uassoc(). (Andrey)
  • array_diff_uassoc(). (Andrey)
  • convert_uuencode(). (Ilia)
  • convert_uudecode(). (Ilia)
  • substr_compare(). (Ilia)
  • pcntl_wait(). (GeorgeS)
• Added "resume_pos" context option to "ftp://" wrapper. (Sara)
• Added optional parameter to OCIWriteTemporaryLob() to specify the type of LOB (Patch by Novicky Marek ). (Thies)
• Added reflection API. (Andrei, George, Timm)
• Changed length parameter in fgetcsv() to be optional. (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed IPv6 support in MacOSX Panther. (Dan, Marko)
• Fixed fgetcsv() to correctly handle international (non-ascii) characters. (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed support for fields within XML documents in ext/xml. (Sterling)
• Fixed visibility of __construct and __clone. (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #26003 (fgetcsv() not binary-safe on null bytes). (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed bug #25756 (SimpleXML's validate_schema_file() broken). (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed bug #25581 (getimagesize() returns incorrect values on bitmap (os2) files). (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #25494 (array_merge*() allows non-arrays as argument). (Jay)
• Fixed bug #24766 (strange result array from unpack()). (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed bug #24729 ($obj = new $className; causes crash when $className is not set). (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #24565 (cannot read array elements received via $_REQUEST). (Zeev)
• Fixed bug #24445 (get_parent_class() returns different values). (Sterling, Stanislav)
• Fixed bug #24403 (preg_replace() problem: Using $this when not in object context). (Zeev)
• Fixed bug #24399 (PEAR DB isError crash [instanceof_function fault?]). (Sterling, Marcus)
• Fixed bug #24396 (foreach ($k=>$v), the key $k is missing). (Zeev)
• Fixed bug #24279 (__get() crash when no value is returned). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #22367 (undefined variable has a value). (Zeev)
• Fixed bug #19859 (allow fast_call_user_function to support __call). (Stanislav)
• Fixed bug #17997 (Warning when switch() and reference are combined). (Zeev)
• Fixed bug #17988 (strtotime failed to parse postgresql timestamp). (Derick)

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Versienummer	5.0.0 beta 2
Website	PHP.net
Download	http://nl2.php.net/downloads.php
Bestandsgrootte	4,84MB
Licentietype	GPL

Reacties (6)

[Maverick]

Sorry dat ik al php n00b hier reageer, maar ik zie dat hier de zend enige bij zit. Dat is toch een veel geld (als in duizende euro's ) kostend iets
Of is dit alleen een "Shareware" versie oid?

[SchizoDuckie]

de zend engine is de 'core' van php zeg maar. Dat wat 1000den euro's kost waar jij op doelt is waarschijnljk de zend encoder engine.

Check www.zend.com vor meer info

[Verwijderd]

Jij hebt het over de ontwikkelomgeving Zend Studio.

[Bosmonster]

Removed the not so working namespaces support

Zou dit later weer terugkomen, of houden ze zichzelf niet aan de gestelde eigenschappen van PHP 5.0?

[Verwijderd]

Van de Zend website:

Is it true that you have decided not to include namespaces, and will you reconsider implementing namespaces at some later date?

Namespaces as well as nested classes were secluded from PHP 5 because they don't map well to PHP, and the gain they bring is not significant, versus the amount of complexity they add to the language. Since I don't expect this to change at a later date, I don't expect to see namespaces in PHP in the future.

Ik denk dus namespaces inderdaad niet in PHP 5 zullen zitten.

[jochemd]

Wat is de status van Unicode support in PHP 5? Wordt dat vergelijkbaar met bijvoorbeeld Java, of blijven dat de hacks die we nu in PHP 4 hebben?