PHP 5 Beta 2

PHP 5.0.0 Beta 2 has been released. This is the first feature complete version of PHP 5, and we recommend for PHP users to try it. PHP 5 is still not ready for production use!
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30 Oct 2003, PHP 5 Beta 2

  – Lots and lots of changes in the Zend Engine 2 since beta 1:

  . Added Iterators

  . Improved memory manager

  . Added Reflection API

  . Removed the not so working namespaces support

  . Removed support for expressions within constant declerations.

  . You can read about most changes in ZEND_CHANGES under the Zend directory.

  – Improved the DBX extension: (Marc)

  . Added DBX_RESULT_UNBUFFERED flag for dbx_query().

  . Added dbx_fetch_row()

  . Added SQLite support.

  – Improved the Interbase extension: (Ard Biesheuvel)

  . Added support for multiple databases into ibase_trans()

  . Added support for CREATE DATABASE, SET TRANSACTION and EXECUTE PROCEDURE

  statements into ibase_query()

  . Added ibase_commit_ret() and ibase_rollback_ret()

  . Added ibase_drop_db()

  . Added ibase_gen_id()

  . Added ibase_name_result()

  . Added ibase_errcode()

  . Added ibase_affected_rows() and ibase_num_params()

  . Added ibase_param_info()

  . Added ibase_wait_event()

  . Added ibase_set_event_handler() and ibase_free_event_handler()

  – Added new COM extension with integrated .Net support. (Wez)

  – Added new functions:

  . setrawcookie(). (Brian)

  . pg_version(). (Marcus)

  . dbase_get_header_info(). (Zak)

  . snmp_read_mib(). (Jani)

  . http_build_query(). (Sara)

  . ftp_alloc(). (Sara)

  . array_udiff(). (Andrey)

  . array_udiff_assoc(). (Andrey)

  . array_udiff_uassoc(). (Andrey)

  . array_diff_uassoc(). (Andrey)

  . convert_uuencode(). (Ilia)

  . convert_uudecode(). (Ilia)

  . substr_compare(). (Ilia)

  . pcntl_wait(). (GeorgeS)

  – Added “resume_pos” context option to “ftp://” wrapper.

  (Sara)

  – Added optional parameter to OCIWriteTemporaryLob() to specify the type of

  LOB

  (Patch by Novicky Marek ). (Thies)

  – Added reflection API. (Andrei, George, Timm)

  – Changed length parameter in fgetcsv() to be optional. (Moriyoshi)

  – Fixed IPv6 support in MacOSX Panther. (Dan, Marko)

  – Fixed fgetcsv() to correctly handle international (non-ascii) characters.

  (Moriyoshi)

  – Fixed support for $v), the key $k is missing). (Zeev)

  – Fixed bug #24279 (__get() crash when no value is returned). (Ilia)

  – Fixed bug #22367 (undefined variable has a value). (Zeev)

  – Fixed bug #19859 (allow fast_call_user_function to support __call).

  (Stanislav)

  – Fixed bug #17997 (Warning when switch() and reference are combined). (Zeev)

  – Fixed bug #17988 (strtotime failed to parse postgresql timestamp). (Derick)