PHP 5.1 is out

November 25th, 2005

PHP 5.1.0 is out. There is alot of good stuff in this release and it is a major milestone. May PHP 5.1.2 be as successful as PHP 4.1.2.
I say 5.1.2 because it looks like there are is going to be at least one, possibly two bug fix releases to follow. There is [...]

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Of PHP References and Compatibility

October 20th, 2005

Following up on the Backward compatibilty and web host adoption of PHP 5 post from two weeks ago, I got a pretty good education about the problem with taking a reference of $this. The best summary is in this bug report.
It comes down to the fact that allowing references to be taken of $this [...]

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