[13-Jul-2004] The PHP team is proud to announce the final release of PHP 5!
Some of the key features of PHP 5 include:
The Zend Engine II with a new object model and dozens of new features. XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now focused around the excellent libxml2 library (http://www.xmlsoft.org/). A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML as PHP objects. It can also interface with the DOM extension and vice-versa. A brand new built-in SOAP extension for interoperability with Web Services. A new MySQL extension named MySQLi for developers using MySQL 4.1 and later. This new extension includes an object-oriented interface in addition to a traditional interface; as well as support for many of MySQL's new features, such as prepared statements. SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite, please visit their website. Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access low-level socket operations on streams. And lots more... For changes since Release Candidate 3, please consult the ChangeLog.
期待已久的 PHP5 昨天终于正式发布了，从去年暑假，一直延续到今年暑假的 PHP5 ，带来了崭新的面向对象特性，加强了大型应用程序的开发支持，2004年7月13日，将是 PHP 历史性的一天，再此感谢 PHP Group ，感谢所有为 PHP 做出贡献的人，感谢所有使用和热爱 PHP 的朋友．让我们举杯庆祝吧！
另外，PHP 4.3.8 也于当日发布．7月13日，对于我来说也是具有历史性的意义，我和 MM 立下约定的一天，我亲爱的朋友们，祝福我们吧，谢谢~
