Can anyone tell me what are the main pros&cons of php5 compared to php4?
ThanksA good overview of PHP5's new features can be found here:
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I particularly like SimpleXML, which lets me use XML data without sticking pins in a voodoo doll of Tim Bray, and the integrated support for Tidy, which lets me take user-generated HTML and clean it before it does anything ugly.
If there's a downside, it's the same downside that comes with any major rewrite: PHP5 is not as thoroughly tested as PHP4, which has gone through many cycles of bugfixing.Also covered in the manual (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration5.php">http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration5.php</a><!-- m -->).well, if you're interested in pursuing XML, SOAP, web services and the like, you'll really be much better off with PHP 5...
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ThanksA good overview of PHP5's new features can be found here:
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I particularly like SimpleXML, which lets me use XML data without sticking pins in a voodoo doll of Tim Bray, and the integrated support for Tidy, which lets me take user-generated HTML and clean it before it does anything ugly.
If there's a downside, it's the same downside that comes with any major rewrite: PHP5 is not as thoroughly tested as PHP4, which has gone through many cycles of bugfixing.Also covered in the manual (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration5.php">http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration5.php</a><!-- m -->).well, if you're interested in pursuing XML, SOAP, web services and the like, you'll really be much better off with PHP 5...
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