The Official End to PHP 5.2

Posted on December 25th, 2010 by Sam

On December 16th the PHP development team announced the release of PHP 5.2.16 as the end of support for PHP 5.2; and encouraging developers to upgrade source code to PHP 5.3. With official support no longer available for 5.2, how long will it take before the mass of hosting providers transition to PHP 5.3? If [...]

“What Is Web 2.0″ by Tim O`Reilly – Review

Posted on January 10th, 2010 by Sam

This may be a review of an old article, however I hear the misuse of the term too often not to bring it back to light. Sites tout there mystical ascension to “Web 2.0″ hood, labeling there site with “New 2.0 features!”, while the key components of the concept are missing. Tim O`Reilly was there [...]

What’s new in PHP 5.3

Posted on March 27th, 2009 by Sam

With PHP 5.3 slated for release near the end of April (Q1 2009), it’s time to start looking at the new improvements being implemented. Version 5.3 was originally known as “PHP 6 without Unicode support”, but there are many new features being implemented in this release that have been on the development table for a [...]

Announcing the Release of PHP 5.3 Candidate 1

Posted on March 26th, 2009 by Sam

The latest release of PHP (5.3.0RC1) is the final phase in a major improvement in the 5.X series. The PHP 5.3.X will eventually obsolete the 5.2.X branch of PHP; all users, primarily those using earlier version 5 releases, are advised to test this release for backwards compatibility. There is an upgrading guide available detailing the [...]

PHP 5.2.7 removed from distribution

Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Sam

On December 7th, only days after the release of PHP 5.2.7, PHP.net issued a notice that the 5.2.7 release was no longer available due to a major bug that affects security; requesting a degrade to the 5.2.6 version temporarily. On the 8th, they had the new PHP 5.2.8 release where they explained the fix. As [...]