PHP 5.0.0 released July 14th

Literally years of development went into this next generation release of the PHP Hypertext Preprocessor and after 3 release candidates the PHP team released the final version 5.0.0 yesterday.

5.0.0 supposedly sports a brand new object-model (for real, this time ;) ) powered by Zend Engine II as well as completely redone XML and SOAP support (which was really clunky in PHP4 and earlier). Users of MySQL 4.1 may also use the new MySQLi extension to work with MySQL queries and their results as object in addition to the traditional way of working with them.

I’m really looking forward to using PHP5 for an upcoming project.