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Max Horvath has called for some help in getting a feature included (and fully working) into the next release of the Eclipse PDT extension - phar support.

As PHP 5.3 is marching towards the final release, Eclipse PDT's next version needs to support its new features.

Two major additions to PHP 5.3 are namespaces and bundling the Phar extension....

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With PHP4 out of the way, it's time to make way for PHP5.

To get the ball rolling, Gennady Feldman has posted some links to PHP5 resources that can get you on your way.

In a new post to his blog, Paul Jones anout a small issue when working with the PHP 5.2.5 command line functionality - a segfault if you extend the Exception class.

When executing code at the command line using php -r and PHP 5.2.5, be sure not to extend the Exception class.

It will cause a segmentation fault.

He includes examples of the issue that would cause the problem and the bug he's filed in an effort to get it fixed.

The community has responded to the fact that PHP4 is officially "dead" with a few posts to their blogs. Here's the list so far:

DevShed has finished off their series looking at sending MIME emails with PHP in this new tutorial, moving the current code from the previous parts up to a fully PHP5 state.

With the recent release of the first alpha of PHP 5.3, the community has been talking and testing this new version - here's just a few:

I thought it might be interesting to compare the PHP test coverage from before the 2008 testfest with today's test coverage.

Here are two sets of gcov results - one based on a CVS extract of PHP 5.3 from May 1st 2008 and the second based on a CVS extract of PHP 5.3 from August the 1st 2008.

I had to copy a few files into odd places to make lcov run, however since I copied the same files in both source trees I think the results are comparable, even if they look a bit odd in places.

PDO_MYSQLND is in the PHP CVS repository at php.net: PDO_MYSQL has been patched (PHP 5.3, PHP 6.0). Try out PDO_MYSQL with the MySQL native driver for PHP (mysqlnd).

Its has new features. Since Kaj’s announcement of the MySQL native driver for PHP (mysqlnd), we promised to to patch all three PHP ...

Hi !

Time is come for a little summary of this project. What I had to do:
* To write new output formats: CHM, Manpages, PDF
* To write themes: PEAR html theme, PHP-GTK html theme
* To design DBhtml implementation in PhD

Currently, I'm done with CHM output, Manpage output format (and its own PHP theme) and PEAR theme for html format.