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<abbr title="PHP: Hypertext Processor">PHP</abbr> 5: “Ready to Serve!”

PHP 5

PHP 5 is in the pipes: Zend has recently launched its PHP 5 Infocenter.

On the menu, resources about PHP 5 novelties, like:

• Improvement of the object-oriented support;
• Facilities to handle XML in an easy way;
• SQLite support;
• Tidy and Perl extensions.

In this center, there is also an overview of the new Zend Engine II, redesigned to suit the OO needs, as well as i18n and exceptions.

SQLite

SQLite support has been included apparently because of MySQL change of licence (from LGPL to GPL); as far as I understood, it means that PHP will prefer SQLite to MySQL and the MySQL support will have to be activated to be used. To be honnest, I had never heard of SQLite before and it is said to be “compact and fast”:

Two times faster than PostgreSQL and MySQL for many common operations.

First impression: YADb! I guess we’ll see if it begins to be used or not, if the performance claims are proved to be true, if, if… For the moment, I guess people will stick to MySQL: too many changes would have to be done – and yes, because of lame coding.