Fw: [ANNOUNCE] PHP 5.0.0 Beta 1

Looks like MySQL is gone from PHP 5, and is replaced with SQLLite...

Chris

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Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 2:19 AM
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] PHP 5.0.0 Beta 1

> The PHP development community is proud to announce the release of
> PHP 5 Beta 1. Both source packages and a Win32 build are available, you
> can find these packages at http://www.php.net/downloads.php. For a
> complete list of changes, please refer to
> http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php.
>
> Some of the more major changes include:
>
> - PHP5 features the Zend Engine 2. For a list of Zend Engine 2
> changes, please visit http://www.php.net/zend-engine-2.php.
>
> - XML support has been completely redone in PHP5, all extensions
> are now focused around the excellent libxml2 library
> (http://www.xmlsoft.org/).
>
> - SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite,
> please visit their website, http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/.
>
> - Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access
> low-level socket operations on streams.
>
> - Due to issues surrounding the MySQL 4.0 license, the MySQL libraries
> are no longer bundled with PHP. For more information on these
> licensing changes please see the MySQL licensing policy [1]
>
> Note: This is a beta version. It should not be used in production or
> even semi-production web sites. There are known bugs in it, and in
> addition, some of the features may change (based on feedback). We
> encourage you to download and play with it (and report bugs[2] if you
> find any!), but please do not replace your production installations of
> PHP 4 at this time.
>
> [1] http://www.mysql.com/products/licensing.html
> [2] http://bugs.php.net/
>
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