14 DAY TRIAL // PHP, an HTML-embedded scripting language with syntax borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in, is now at version 5.4.0.
PHP 5.4.0 comes with a huge list of new features, updates and bug fixes, and is a major leap in the 5.x series, at least according to the developers.
Highlights of PHP 5.4.0:
· New language syntax including Traits, shortened array syntax and more were added; · Performance was improved and the memory consumption was reduced; · Multibyte languages are now available in all builds of PHP; · A Built-in webserver in CLI mode to simplify development workflows and testing was added; · The code base was clean and multiple deprecated language features were removed; · Register globals, magic quotes and safe mode were removed; · The break/continue $var syntax was also removed; · The PHP default_charset is now "UTF-8" within the distributed php.ini files, but still defaults to ""; · ext/sqlite (ext/sqlite3 and ext/pdo_sqlite are not affected) was moved to PECL.
You can check out the official changelog here.
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