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Zylink is one of the first major web hosting
companies to implement PHP 5 on its shared hosting servers. Because we are
dedicated to the web development community, we try to bring new technologies
on line as soon as possible.
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Zylink
announces its 2007 Open Source Web Development Conference
focusing on PHP 5 and MySQL 5.0
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How is PHP 5 Different? The PHP
development team (www.php.net) lists these
major features, among others:
- The Zend Engine II with a new object model
and dozens of new features.
- XML support has been completely redone in
PHP 5, all extensions are now focused around the excellent libxml2 library
(http://www.xmlsoft.org/).
- A new SimpleXML extension for easily
accessing and manipulating XML as PHP objects. It can also interface with
the DOM extension and vice-versa.
- A brand new built-in SOAP extension for
interoperability with Web Services.
- A new MySQL extension named MySQLi for
developers using MySQL 4.1 and later. This new extension includes an
object-oriented interface in addition to a traditional interface; as well
as support for many of MySQL's new features, such as prepared statements.
- SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more
information on SQLite, please visit their
website.
- Streams have been greatly improved,
including the ability to access low-level socket operations on streams.
PHP 5 and the integrated Zend Engine 2 have
greatly improved PHP's performance and capabilities, but great care has been
taken to break as little existing code as possible. So migrating your code
from PHP 4 to 5 should be very easy.
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