PHP 4.4.9 & PHP 5.3 Alpha1
Original post provide by PHP Index - La passerelle française des technologies PHP: Hypertext PreprocessorL’équipe de développement de PHP vient d’annoncer la sortie de PHP 4.4.9. Cette version a pour but d’améliorer la stabilité de la branche 4.4.x.
Parmi les correctifs on notera :
- La Mise à jour de PCRE version 7.7
- La Correction de possibles crashes dans imageloadfont
- La Correction de la fonction memnstr()
La liste complète des modifications apportées par PHP 4.4.9 est disponible dans le changelog.
A noter aussi, la sortie de PHP 5.3 Alpha1. Cette nouvelle version de PHP devrait améliorer la stabilité et les performances de la branche 5.x mais aussi apporter de nouvelles syntaxes au langage et à ses extensions. Plusieurs nouvelles fonctionnalités ont déjà été documentées dans la documentation officielle, d’autres sont répertoriées dans le wiki.
Télécharger PHP 5.3 Alpha1
Télécharger PHP 4.4.9
CrushJsCss
Package: crushJsCss Summary: Optimize Javascript and CSS files Groups: Compression, Text processing Author: Antonio Jozzolino Description: This class can be used to optimized Javascript and CSS files. It can compact and scrambles JavaScript files using Dean Edwards' algorithm implemented by PHP class by Nicolas Martin.
ArrayToXML
There is a class that can send an HTTP request to a remote server passing data from a multidimensional array serialized as a XML document. Another class can be used to do the opposite, i.e. receive HTTP requests with data serialized as XML and return the original array.
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