Ilia Alshanetsky, release manager of PHP 5.1, has published the first release candidate of the upcoming 5.1.3 version of PHP. It's mainly a bug fix release, but the PCRE library was updated to version 6.6 and the CGI interface has been updated quite a bit as well. Other items improved included updates to the SPL, Reflection APU, cURL support and the GD functionality. The SimpleXML engine was also updated to allow for the use of namespaces with the addChild and addAttribute functions.

You can grab this latest release candidate from Ilia's site and you can check out the Changelog here.]]> Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:19:59 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4737 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4737 post from digg.com today, there's a pointer to an extensive guide for installing PHP 5.x on a Windows machine (Server 2003) running the IIS 6 webserver.

If you have already done basic configuration of IIS6 on Windows Server 2003, and have an otherwise functional setup, then exactly following these steps should give you a fully-functioning installation of PHP. However, since I cannot know the combination of hardware and software you are running, or any of the environment factors within which you work, I cannot gaurantee that these steps will work for you. They have worked for me and others who have followed them.

There are five parts to the guide - Installation, Configuration of PHP, Configuration of IIS, Testing, and Troubleshooting. Each step is very descriptive and provides a "sub-list" of things to be sure to set up. The troubleshooting section can help out a great deal as well, providing easy answers to common questions about the setup process...]]> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:04:10 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4335 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4335 this post on DynamicWebPages.de today, the first Release Candidate of the PHP 4.4.2 series has been posted.

Derick Rethans, the release manager for the upcoming PHP version, 4.4.2, has published the first Release Candidate for this series. Those who use PHP under Apache 2 or mod_rewrite right now, are specifically being asked to test this release. There have been reports of failures with this specific setup.

All further changes of the version can be found in the Changelog. Originally, the final version was going to be released on Tuesday. However with the help of a few industrious testers, the few errors can found (like the crashing issue with Apache 2) and taken care of so that the new release candidate shouldn't be far behind.

You can download this latest Release Candidate here...]]> Sat, 19 Nov 2005 05:47:58 -0600