PHP 5.4.11 / 5.3.16 / 5.4.12 RC1 / 5.5.0 Alpha 4

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This is a world famous general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development or web-based applications.

PHP needs a server to run from.

From here you can download the PHP core source code. For OS-specific binaries, please use the PHP global page on Softpedia.

Here are some key features of "PHP":

· Support for namespaces
· Late static binding
· Lambda Functions and Closures
· Syntax additions: NOWDOC, ternary short cut "?:" and jump label (limited goto), __callStatic()
· Under the hood performance improvements
· Optional garbage collection for cyclic references
· Optional mysqlnd PHP native replacement for libmysql
· Improved Windows support including VC9 and experimental X64 binaries as well as portability to other supported platforms
· More consistent float rounding
· Deprecation notices are now handled via E_DEPRECATED (part of E_ALL) instead of the E_STRICT error level
· Several enhancements to enable more flexiblity in php.ini (and ini parsing in general)
· New bundled extensions: ext/phar, ext/intl, ext/fileinfo, ext/sqlite3, ext/enchant
· Over 140 bug fixes and improvements to PHP, in particular to: ext/openssl, ext/spl and ext/date

Limitations:

· All PHP users should note that the PHP 5.2 series is NOT supported anymore. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.x.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Fixed bugs:
· Wrong TSRM usage in zend_Register_class alias.
· get_html_translation_table() output incomplete with HTML_ENTITIES and ISO-8859-1.
· isset() inconsistently produces a fatal error on protected property.
· Bad warning text from strpos() on empty needle.
· Use after scope error in zend_compile.
· Poor efficiency of strtr() using array with keys of very different length.
· zend_std_compare_objects crash on recursion.
· Magic methods called twice for unset protected properties.
· fopen follows redirects for non-3xx statuses.
· Support BITMAPV5HEADER in getimagesize().

Via: PHP 5.4.11 / 5.3.16 / 5.4.12 RC1 / 5.5.0 Alpha 4