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Excellent PHP 5 Overview

HarryF’s PHP5: Coming Soon to a Webserver Near You is the most detailed overview of the features we can expect from the next major PHP release that I’ve seen yet.

Posted 3rd August 2003 at 9:41 pm

This is Excellent PHP 5 Overview by Simon Willison, posted on 3rd August 2003.

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Testing small improvements to the comment system
Simon - 3rd August 2003 21:51 - #
One more test
Simon - 3rd August 2003 21:53 - #
The auther mentions and demonstrates the new XML capability. I have been unable to get this to work at all using the latest code from snaps.php.net.

My info.php returns the following:

DOM DOM/XML enabled, DOM/XML API Version 20030413, libxml Version 2.5.7, HTML Support enabled, XPath Support enabled, XPointer Support enabled. XML XML Support active, XML Namespace Support active, libxml2 Version, 2.5.7. XSL XML/XSLT enabled, DOM/XSLT enabled, libxslt Version 1.0.30, libxslt compiled against libxml Version 2.5.7.

Everything looks OK however with a lack of documentation I can't find a way use the capability. I've downloaded the additional PECL dll's and any attempt to load php_domxml.dll or php_xslt.dll caused Apache to fail on start. I'm using Windows 2000 and Apache 2.0.47.

I'd ask on the relevant PHP forums but others have posted the same problems and received no insight. Using a script that expands all the functions for the loaded extensions shows dom and xsl with no functions listed. I fully understand it is beta however with the lack of doco it is hard to get this stuff working and tested.

michael - 3rd August 2003 23:52 - #

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