From 2a9e6e29201a1133a58525e7eb81663e9764827e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jim winstead Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 01:53:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] remove old cruft --- version4/credits.php | 16 ---- version4/do_download.php | 28 ------- version4/index.php | 3 - version4/release_announcement.php | 129 ------------------------------ 4 files changed, 176 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 version4/credits.php delete mode 100644 version4/do_download.php delete mode 100644 version4/release_announcement.php diff --git a/version4/credits.php b/version4/credits.php deleted file mode 100644 index b461f07d4..000000000 --- a/version4/credits.php +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ - - - -
- -If you've contributed to the PHP project and are missing from these credits, please -mail us! - - diff --git a/version4/do_download.php b/version4/do_download.php deleted file mode 100644 index 83e2c1bf1..000000000 --- a/version4/do_download.php +++ /dev/null @@ -1,28 +0,0 @@ - diff --git a/version4/index.php b/version4/index.php index cd38e1e93..fc3a6db3d 100644 --- a/version4/index.php +++ b/version4/index.php @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ echo "\n\n";

The long anticipated next generation of PHP is here!

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PHP 4.0 Beta 1

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Release Announcement

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Introduction

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After eight months of intense development, the PHP group is -pleased to announce the release of PHP 4.0 Beta 1.  This new, -downwards-compatible successor to the award winning PHP 3.0 Web scripting -language, features revolutionary enhancements that will allow PHP, more than -ever, to compete in the forefront of Web development tools.

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PHP 4.0 offers drastic improvements in every  aspect - -performance and scalability, features, platform support and extendibility.

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The most significant change in PHP 4.0 is the integration of the -Zend engine.  Zend, developed by Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans in the last -eight months, is a full rewrite of their PHP 3.0 scripting engine;  The new -version is blazing fast, and offers significant performance boosts for both -simple and especially complex Web sites.  In addition, the new scripting -engine enhances the PHP language with a bunch of new features, and removes -limitations that existed in version 3.0.

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In addition to Zend, PHP 4.0 introduces several other new -features.  PHP 4.0 is truly platform independent, and is portable across -operating systems and different Web servers;  Sascha Schumann added native -support for HTTP -sessions, without the need of a 3rd party library;  And, Stig Bakken -implemented a -modular build process for UNIX, that would make it easy to use and distribute -dynamically loadable PHP modules.

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Beta 1 Status

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PHP 4.0 has been tested by a group of about 30 people for the -last three months.  This small scale beta test was conducted to ensure that -the first public beta of PHP 4.0, when it is released, is stable enough to be -tested by the masses.  We now feel that the code has reached a stability -level that is suitable for a public beta test, as most legacy PHP 3.0 scripts we -try to run on PHP 4.0 run without a glitch, and this very web site, the one -you're browsing now, is powered by PHP 4.0.

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However, it is still beta software.  As such, we're -positive that there will be bugs in it.  Since mostly all of PHP has been -either written from scratch or heavily modified, the chances of finding no bugs -in the new code are slim.  For that reason, we don't recommend that you use -PHP 4.0 Beta 1 on production servers;  If you choose to run PHP 4.0 Beta 1 -on a production server, at least make sure your web site runs properly under PHP -4.0 by first testing it offline, on a different Web server.

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Because we release the code as a beta, the default build -configuration builds PHP 4.0 in debug mode.  Debug mode is considerably -slower than Release mode, but allows for more useful bug reports.  If you -want to benchmark PHP 4.0 against PHP 3.0, make sure you turn debug mode off.

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New Features

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PHP 4.0 is packed with many new features:

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Incompatibilities

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Zend has been designed from the ground up to be as compatible as -possible with the PHP 3.0 language.  It is close to 100% compatibility with -PHP 3.0, except for very minor -incompatibilities that exist due to the nature of the new architecture.

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Mailing list

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The PHP 4.0 Beta mailing list is php4beta@lists.php.net -(to subscribe, send an empty message to php4beta-subscribe@lists.php.net).  -All PHP 4.0 related discussions should be held on this list;  Please, don't -clutter the already over-flown PHP 3.0 mailing list with PHP 4.0 related -questions.

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Reporting Bugs

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PHP 4.0 bugs should be reported at http://bugs.php.net/.  -Please, don't mix between http://bugs.php.net/bugs-php3.php -(the PHP 3.0 bug report tool) and http://bugs.php.net/.

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For PHP Module Developers

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PHP 4.0's inner API has changed significantly since version -3.0.  If you used only module API functions in your modules, your module -should work with PHP 4.0 without requiring any changes.   However, if -you used inner API functions (for example, accessed symbol tables or arrays -using Hash functions), your module will require some porting.

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We haven't yet prepared updated API documentation.  We hope -to prepare some for Beta 2.

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Future

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One of the goals of Beta 1 is to find out whether any function -modules in the source tree are incompatible with PHP 4.0.  We hope to find -all of these modules and have them fixed for Beta 2.

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No date has been set for the final release of PHP 4.0.  -Assuming the beta test of PHP 4.0 goes well, we expect the final release to be -out on the fourth quarter of 1999.

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