PHP Update August 2008

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The second in a likely series of short talks about the latest goings-on in the world of PHP.

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[edit] PHP Update August 2008

What's happened in PHP-world, since the last update in March 2008? by Dave Nattriss

[edit] PHP 5.3 Alpha 1

  • released 01/08/08
  • security and stability patches
  • new features:
    • namespaces
    • late static binding and __callStatic
    • lambda functions and closures
    • new extensions (intl, phar, fileinfo and sqlite3)
    • optional cyclic garbage collection
    • other bits and pieces

see: http://www.php.net

[edit] Manual restructure

  • improved navigation
  • per-extension chapters
  • usage examples
  • improved documentation for OO extensions
  • noticeable changes:
    • function reference
    • predefined variables
    • context options and parameters
    • predefined exceptions

see: http://www.php.net/manual

[edit] PHP stats June 2008

  • used on 33.18% of websites (31% in UK)‏
  • 60.86% still using PHP 4 (73% in UK)‏
  • only 9.91% using PHP 5.2.5 (latest version, released 08/11/07), which is 25.47% of all PHP 5 installations
  • most prevalent in small countries (servers with TLDs of small countries)‏
  • Yahoo and Facebook still largest (known) websites using PHP

see: http://www.nexen.net/chiffres_cles/phpversion/

[edit] PHPMyAdmin 2.11.8.1

  • bugfix, released 28/07/08
  • 2.11.0, released 22/08/07
    • supports creating VIEWs from query results
    • can manage triggers, procedures and functions
    • supports MySQL 5.0.37 query profiling
    • improved interface for servers hosting thousands of databases and tables

See: http://www.phpmyadmin.net

[edit] Useful resources

[edit] Anything missing?

Let me know!

This talk was given by Dave Nattriss on August 7th 2008

[edit] Resources

[edit] Links

Slides from the talk (Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation)

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