[fc_]

You heard it here first (ok, maybe you didn't but I did post it here first)

All the skinny on it available at php.net

Of course, we'll have to wait until its available on most webhosts, but when I tried it last (around rc3 or so) it did compile under osx.

Have fun!

[philzilla]

installed hours ago

[timmerk]

Does it compile right out of the box in 10.3.4?

[Arkham_c]

I haven't looked at it yet, but it looks like it's finally a true object oriented language. Cool.

[fc_]

Originally posted by philzilla:
installed hours ago

yes, but you were late to the thread, weren't you?

(j/k)

[Simon Mundy]

Hands up who's brave enough to start writing their client's apps in strict PHP 5!



From what I've seen of it so far, it's a very clean upgrade from 4 to 5 and none of my existing sites had broken.

There's a lovely new PEAR class called 'PHP_Beautifier' that shows off the power of 5 by parsing your code and reformatting it in many various ways.

The only hassle for me was trying to install PDFLib - since they've gone to 5.x and 6.x, the PDFLib is already more difficult to install, and the new PECL method of installing the extension won't have a bar of it. If anyone else can get it to work, please let me know as I've been documenting it here and would love to find a foolproof method. THEN I can start migrating my clients and projects... Hah, won't that be fun!

[philzilla]

interestingly, 4.3.8 has been released too. that begs the question: who is going to upgrade to 5.x, who is sticking with 4.x, and what would be your reasons behind that decision?

[philzilla]

Originally posted by Simon Mundy:
Hands up who's brave enough to start writing their client's apps in strict PHP 5!

i nominate... Simon!

[timmerk]

What is a good configure string to use to get all the extra goodies, extensions, etc?

Thanks!

[Chris O'Brien]

I've installed PHP 5 with the configuration string:

Code:
./configure --prefix=/us --disable-static --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs --sysconfdir=/etc 
--enable-discard-path --with-config-file-path=/etc/apache 
--enable-safe-mode 
--with-openssl --enable-bcmath --with-bz2 --with-pic 
--enable-calendar --enable-ctype --with-gdbm --with-db3 --enable-dbase --enable-ftp 
--with-iconv --with-gd --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-png 
--with-gmp --with-mysql=shared,/usr --with-xml=shared,/usr --with-gettext=shared,/usr 
--with-mm=/usr --enable-trans-sid --enable-shmop --enable-sockets --with-regex=php 
--enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --enable-yp --enable-memory-limit --with-tsrm-pthreads 
--enable-shared --with-zlib=/usr --with-dom --with-dom-exslt --with-unixODBC --enable-sqlite-utf8

but that's just on an experimental slackware box at work, so that string changes fairly regularly (for example, at the moment I'm adding --with-pdflib to see if I can do what Simon asked).

I've been quite chuffed with PHP 5 for about a month now (using RC3) so i was happy the final release was today. I was checking yesterday on php.net for it but was obviously too early :/

Edit: put in line breaks in the config string so the page didn't scroll 3 miles sideways