PHP 5.0 Released

Major PHP release is final.... so.... what's the verdict? I don't know. Doesn't work on Windows yet. Although setup and compressed archives are available for PHP 5.0, I encountered several parsing problems, particularly with the PEAR & PEAR DB libraries that I use.

FYI: PEAR DB is a PHP database abstraction layer.

I'll wait for a fix for PHP 5.0 or a version of PEAR that works with the new version before I test drive the new engine.

Among the new features on PHP 5.0 are:

• Zend Engine II with a new object model and dozens of new features
• XML support has been rewritten
• New SimpleXml extensions
• New built-in SOAP extensions (for interop with web services)
• New MySql extensions
• SQLite is bundled with this version of PHP
• Improvements to streams

and reportedly more...