NEW PHP Engine
The first alpha version of the upcoming new PHP scripting engine has been released for preview. This new Zend 2 engine bring to PHP tremendous and thrilling new features.
The Zend Engine is the very core of the PHP language. In this new version, the language parser has been mostly rewritten to support advanced OOB features, like :
- Static referencing
- Dereferencing objects returned from functions
- Nested class definition in C style
- Nested class definition in Perl Style (Parent::Children)
- Class constant and Class scope
- Regular object method using both local and global functions
- Multiple dereferencing of objects returned from methods
- Exception handling
- Cloneable object
- Unified constructor
- Destructor
THIS RELEASE IS NOT INTENDED FOR PRODUCTION NOR PRE-PRODUCTION site.
[9-Jun-2002]
The first alpha release of PHP w/ Zend Engine 2 is now available. It is based on the current PHP 4 CVS (4.3.0-dev) and includes the new scripting engine which greatly improves the object model, adds exception handling and provides a much better infrastructure for the integration of external technologies like Java or .NET. For more details and examples you can check out the CHANGES file and an example script which shows how some of these features can be used.
Note: This is an alpha 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 if you find any!), but please don't expect it to replace your copy of PHP 4 at this stage.
Windows binary version is also available for download [4,396Kb].
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