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16 posts tagged “php5”

2007

Hacky holidays on OS X. Jeremy Keith documents how to get PHP 5 and Apache 2 virtual hosts running on Leopard.

# 29th December 2007, 11:49 am / apache, apache2, jeremy-keith, leopard, osx, php, php5, virtualhosts

J4P5: Javascript For PHP 5 (via) “J4P5 is a JavaScript interpreter written in PHP 5, that allows to run untrusted scripts in a sandbox on your server. It aims to implement most of Ecma-262 3rd edition.”

# 12th July 2007, 10:24 pm / ecmascript, j4p5, javascript, php, php5

GoPHP5.org. A campaign to encourage a mass switchover from PHP 4 to PHP 5 on February 8th 2008, by co-ordinating both hosting companies and PHP projects.

# 8th July 2007, 10:08 am / hosting, php, php5

2006

PHP: JSON Functions. Now bundled in PHP 5. A great way to move data from PHP to some other language.

# 3rd November 2006, 12:25 pm / json, php, php5

2004

Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5 (via) A migration guide from the PHP manual.

# 14th July 2004, 5:35 am / php, php5

Zend PHP 5 Goodies

Zend have quietly released a veritable treasure trove of PHP 5 tutorials via their PHP5 InfoCenter:

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New PHP releases (via) Joey reports on PHP 4.3.5 RC 2 and PHP 5.0 Beta 4

# 18th February 2004, 3:42 am / php, php5

2003

XML highlights for PHP 5

XML in PHP5: An in-depth look into advanced XML features (via Keith) does exactly what it says on the tin. Here are the bits that caught my eye:

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XML in PHP5 (via) An in-depth look into advanced XML features

# 20th December 2003, 9:56 pm / php, php5, xml

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.

PHP5 and Questioning OOP

An Interview with Sterling Hughes on PHP5 from the PHP-Con site:

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PHP5 info from Sterling Hughes

Sterling Hughes has posted the slides he will be using for his presentation on PHP 5 next week. They provide a great deal of insight in to the new additions to look forward to in PHP 5, including a few I hadn’t heard about before.

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coWiki uses PHP5

coWiki is the first open source project I have seen being developed with PHP 5, using snapshots from CVS. It looks like a really neat wiki system. Of particular interest for PHP heads is the development log on the front page (sorry, no permalinks) which provides some insight in to the progress of PHP 5’s development.

PHP5 Preview

A great preview describing the features we have to look forward to in PHP 5. Proper object reference handling is going to be sweet.

2002

PHP for the enterprise

PHP5: Ready For The Enterprise? (via Scott) discusses forthcoming improvements in PHP5 and asks if they will lead to acceptance of PHP as a suitable language for enterprise applications. It looks like a killer factor could well be PHP’s improved Java and .NET integration abilities. Write the back-end in Java/.NET and use PHP for the front end—that way you get a powerful web-specific scripting language for the front end of your site. Then if you ever need to change technologies on the back end your front end code can be reused.