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 [...]

PHP 5.3 alpha3 now released

Posted on December 6th, 2008 by Sam

After a few years of PHP version 5, the developers have released the final stage of the 5.3 testing. This release is for development review not for production. According to the release plan, a stable release is expected sometime around the end of Q1 2009. Excerpt from PHP.net 04-Dec-2008 news: Several new features have already [...]