PHP.net: PHP 4.3.9RC3 released!
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PHP 4.3.9RC3 has been released for testing. This is the last release candidate before the final release and should have a very low number of problems and/or bugs. Nevertheless, please download and test it as much as possible on real-life applications to uncover any remaining issues.
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With great new advancements coming out of PHP with each new version released, the list of things that are being worked toward for PHP 6 bears some repeating for what we have to look forward to. PHPHacks.com has just that posted today.   The PHP world is really excited about the upcoming release of PHP 6.0. Amongst all the uncertainties in any new release, PHP 6.0 seems to be getting rid of three of the earlier troublesome features: register_globals, magic_quotes_gpc and safe_mode. The first was a big security hole, the second messed with the data and made changing environments quite difficult, while the third was usually misread, and provided a false sense of security. There's also quite a lot of work scheduled to do with Unicode.   Other large changes are mentioned as well, like the the addition of new 64-bit integers and that the ereg extension is removed, while the XMLReader, XMLWriter and Fileinfo extensions are added to the core, and by default are on. Check out the entire post for the full listing.
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The latest edition of PHP Magazine's PHPBarnstormer has been posted (Issue #17).
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This week's latest PHPBarnstormer has been posted.
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Latest PEAR Releases:PHP_CompatInfo 1.4.1HTML_Progress2 2.3.0RC1pearweb_phars 1.1.0pearweb 1.4.0Auth 1.5.0HTML_QuickForm_altselect 1.0.0RC1PEAR_PackageUpdate 0.6.1PHP_Beautifier 0.1.13pearweb 1.4.2Structures_LinkedList 0.1.2pearweb 1.5.0RC1Console_Getopt 1.2.2Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_Flexy 0.1.0HTML_CSS 1.1.3Text_CAPTCHA 0.2.1PHP_CodeSniffer 0.4.0
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Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:Sebastian Bergmann's Blog: Support for the Cancel Case Workflow PatternCommunity News: The PDO v2 ProposalSite News: Popular Posts for the Week of 01.25.2008ProPHP Podcast: PHP Newscast for 2008/01/24Developer Tutorials Blog: Why you should be using YAML for configJob Posting: InvestorGuide.com Seeks Web Developer (Fairfax, VA)Pierre-Alain Joye's Blog: Debugging symfony (or any php script) with vim and XdebugCIO.com: You Used PHP to Write WHAT?!Demian Turner's Blog: Seagull 0.6.4 Release (fixes Security Isse from 0.6.3)Developer Tutorials Blog: PHP Qualifications: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
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The PHP group has released the latest version of the PHP 4.4.x series today - PHP 4.4.6:   The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 4.4.6. The main issue that this release addresses is a crash problem that was introduced in PHP 4.4.5. The problem occurs when session variables are used while register_globals is enabled. Details about the PHP 4.4.6 release can be found in the release announcement for 4.4.6, the full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog for PHP 4.   Head on over to your local downloads page to get this new release in either:  tar.bz2 format tar.gz format Windows binaries
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Juan Rivera submitted some information to us recently about the release of the latest version of VS.PHP, the PHP IDE for Visual Studio, now in version 2.3.   Key features are:  Support for remote server projects. Edit remote files like they were local Support for Windows Vista, Visual Studio SP1 Support for Ftp over SSL   VS.Php 2.3 comes as a plug-in for Visual Studio 2005 or as a standalone edition.    You can get complete information on this new update from the press release posted on the software's official website.
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Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:Community News: Namespaces in PHP6Mike Potter's Blog: Sample Code From PHP / Flex e-SeminarThe Bakery: PremierMarinas.com, ScienceHack.com and an iPhone AppPHP F1: PHP Session TutorialCommunity News: GoPHP5 Official SiteCommunity News: jPOP Framework - Javascript & PHPTim Koschuetzki's Blog: Composing Methods: Remove Assignments to ParametersAlexey Zakhlestin's Blog: YAML: Syck for PHP is not read-only anymoreMatthew O'Phinney's Blog: File_Fortune refactoredSite News: Popular Posts for the Week of 07.06.2007
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Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:Ian Selby's Blog: Uploading Large Files With PHPONLamp.com: Quick and Clean PHP FormsDotVoid.com: Reordering nested sets using PHP and JavascriptRob Allen's Blog: Zend Framework Book Coming SoonCommunity News: php|works Daily Summaries (Day 2)Community News: Sara Golemon & Christopher Jones - First Day Summaries of php|worksJob Posting: University of Wisconsin, Department of Medicine Seeks Web Developer (Madison, WI)Zend Developer Zone: PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 19: Glue Frameworks vs. Full Stack FrameworksStefan Mischook's Blog: Installing PHP and MySQL on the Mac with MAMPSecurityReason: Three Advisories for PHP 5.2.4 (dl, iconv_substr & setlocale)
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Latest PEAR Releases:PHP_ParserGenerator 0.1.3Date 1.4.7Image_Tools 0.4.1CodeGen_MySQL_UDF 0.9.6devCodeGen_MySQL 0.1.1devHTML_QuickForm_DHTMLRulesTableless 0.2.2CodeGen_MySQL_UDF 0.9.7devCodeGen_MySQL 0.1.2devHTML_Crypt 1.3.1
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Michael Kimsal has posted a formal prediction that a patch, created by someone in the community, will emerge making it simple to bridge the gap between PHP4 and PHP5 applications.   Given the high number of shared hosts still running PHP4, the backwards compatibility issues going from 4->5 (yes, there are some!) and the new PHP4 "end of life" date (8/8/8), someone will likely find a way to make these run together, and possibly even charge money for it.   He suggests that many hosts out there would happily pay a sum to get this kind of functionally for their customers. It would provide a solution to customers who just don't understand the force towards PHP5 and would make them (and their PHP4 applications) happier.
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Ligaya Turmelle has relayed some great news in her latest blog entry, something that the web's been needing for a long time - a new group from the W3C created specifically for enhancing the HTML standard.   Now I have to admit to being curious about what is going on - after all anything new dealing with the web affects me as PHP coder. Since the W3C is supposedly interested in input from the Web community and content developers, I decided to see who from PHP would be there. Granted it is very early for the formation of the group so it didn't really surprise me to see no one from PHP that I know or heard about in there, but I wonder if anyone from the PHP Group will become a "invited expert" somewhere down the road.   The group is looking for members to help define this next generation of markup on the web. Check out their page for some of the qualifications needed to participate and for some of the upcoming events.W3C Launches New HTML Working Group
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Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:Multi-Dimensional Array HandlerMySQL2JSONBBCode ParsersphpcompilerProcessingExponsor ModSimplePagingweb20vnRouterSStatusMagic ArraysqlExecmyAltCaptchaDynamic Methodpreg_magic
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Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:Auto-Gen CSS FormsadebugFox captchasecShieldImage ResizerPage Rating Classl10nFuerte Image ToolOsiris CoreOsiris CoreArZipStrOTP_TSArZipStrDBNavigatorWAP PushphpTubegCachePaging Class with AJAX or HREF
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Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:Nweb ImageLeast Squares FitCalendar CalculationsParagraphGDColorSimple EnumerationFile Exchange ProtocolFind dateNaf_ValidatorGeneric Form classMulti Threaded Daemon
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According to this new post on DynamicWebPges.de and a message from Derick Rethans on the php.internals mailing list, there's an issue with PHP 4.4.5 where sessions are causing segfaults when register_globals is set to "On".   As per Derick:   Because of this I'd like to release a 4.4.6 soon with this fixes. As  there is also an upgrade to pcre 7.0 we'd need at least one RC, which I  plan to release on Thursday.   Users of the PHP 4.4.x series should keep watch for this new update to correct the issue quickly.