PHP5
Similar to PHP4, PHP5 is a
popular, freely available web applications development tool. PHP5 includes an HTML-embedded scripting language and a
server-side preprocessor that interprets the HTML-embedded code in order to create dynamically generated web pages.
PHP5 also supports several databases, including MySQL,
and PostgreSQL, and is commonly used for the development
of database enabled Web sites.
PHP5 has many new features including some of the following:
- Improved Object Oriented Model and New Object Oriented Features
- Rewritten MySQL Extension
- Collection of Interoperable XML Tools
- Better SOAP Implementation
- Cleaner Error Handling with Exceptions
Installation
PHP5 is installed by default on VPS v3 servers with the most commonly used components. Additional components can be
added by running the PHP5 install again.
NOTE: Most PHP4 scripts should work properly with PHP5. However, there
are a few differences in PHP5 that may cause problems with some PHP4 scripts. If you have PHP4 scripts that do not
work in PHP5 please see the following url for a list of backward incompatible changes:
Migrating from PHP4 to PHP5
PHP5 can be installed as an Apache Module or CGI.
More Information
For additional information about PHP5, including documentation, see:
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