PHP 5 Final Released
Filed in: Web Development — July 17th, 2004
PHP 5 is finally released on 13 Jul 2004. PHP 5 improved performance and capabilities. Here are some features of PHP 5:
- The Zend Engine II with a new object model and dozens of new features.
- Better XML support.
- A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML as PHP objects.
- A brand new built-in SOAP extension for interoperability with Web Services.
- A new MySQL extension named MySQLi for developers using MySQL 4.1 and later.
- SQLite has been bundled with PHP.
- Streams have been greatly improved.
Read the changes from PHP 4 and migrating to PHP 5. PHP 5.0 souce code and windows binaries are available free download at PHP Download.
[ More information @ PHP.net ]
Thought:
The better object-oriented and XML support in PHP5 suits the needs of current and future web development needs. 
