Chapter 24 introduces you to one of the most popular frameworks available today, namely the
Zend Framework (http://framework.zend.com/).
With the release of version 5, PHP??™s popularity hit what was at the time a historical
high, having been installed on almost 19 million domains, according to Netcraft. PHP
was also by far the most popular Apache module, available on almost 54 percent of
all Apache installations, according to Internet services consulting firm E-Soft Inc.
(http://www.securityspace.com/).
PHP 6
At press time, PHP 6 was in beta and scheduled to be released by the conclusion of 2007.
The decision to designate this a major release (version 6) is considered by many to be
a curious one, in part because only one particularly significant feature has been added??”
Unicode support. However, in the programming world, the word significant is often
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implied to mean sexy or marketable, so don??™t let the addition of Unicode support overshadow
the many other important features that have been added to PHP 6. A list of
highlights is found here:
??? Unicode support: Native Unicode support has been added, making it much
easier to build and maintain multilingual applications.
??? Security improvements: A considerable number of security-minded improvements
have been made that should greatly decrease the prevelance of securityrelated
gaffes that to be frank aren??™t so much a fault of the language, but are due
to inexperienced programmers running with scissors, so to speak.
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