PHP 5.3 is now available in final version

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Expected hard by Web developers, the version 5.3 of PHP is now available in its final version. This is the latest evolution of version 5 before the grand arrival of PHP 6 and its many new features. A version 5.4 will release potentially later,

The key features of PHP 5.3.0 include:

• Support for namespaces
• Late static binding
• Lambda Functions and Closures
• Syntax additions: NOWDOC, ternary short cut "?:" and jump label (limited goto), __callStatic()
• Under the hood performance improvements
• Optional garbage collection for cyclic references
• Optional mysqlnd PHP native replacement for libmysql
• Improved Windows support including VC9 and experimental X64 binaries as well as portability to other supported platforms
• More consistent float rounding
• Deprecation notices are now handled via E_DEPRECATED (part of E_ALL) instead of the E_STRICT error level
• Several enhancements to enable more flexiblity in php.ini (and ini parsing in general)
• New bundled extensions: ext/phar, ext/intl, ext/fileinfo, ext/sqlite3, ext/enchant
• Over 140 bug fixes and improvements to PHP, in particular to: ext/openssl, ext/spl and ext/date

The download page provides access to full source code and binaries for Windows (installer included)

Complete Source Code
PHP 5.3.0 (tar.bz2) [9,861Kb] - 30 June 2009
md5: 846760cd655c98dfd86d6d97c3d964b0



PHP 5.3.0 (tar.gz) [12,929Kb] - 30 June 2009
md5: f4905eca4497da3f0beb5c96863196b4

Windows Binaries
For the Windows binaries and installer, see http://windows.php.net/download/.

[absolute55]

I Have seen the so-called expert PHP coder class of 6000 lines that were nothing more than heaps of functions one after the other

No definition of scope (private, public, protected)
No methods to access or change (get (), set ())
No logic in the construction of more classes

This is the biggest problem of PHP:
It takes too long to make up for mistakes / shortcomings.
As a result, the language suffers But since with PHP 5 you can make "real" item! The problem is that PHP developers are still evolving more slowly than the language ...
So when we say that PHP is going on stay alive for few year

[Zecho]

The current issue of PHP is that it lags behind all the legacy Personal HomePage, ie a language for lovers wanting to make a dynamic site without pretension.Currently, it's true that PHP can not claim to be as evolved as J2EE or. NET, both in language and framework, as in performance.

[kelfro]

It's going to be a bit special to adapt to new namespaces with the arrival of the separator "\". Anyway, I am convinced that this is the best solution, given the existing

The late static binding, anonymous functions with closures, it will be top.