Re: [PHP4BETA] PHP 4.0b3 Win32 binaries released

Is there any timescale for the mySQL 'bits' too as this was the part that I couldn't get to work with beta 2? Thanks Ade ----- Original Message ----- From: Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> To: <php-announce@lists.php.net>; <php-dev@lists.php.net>; <php4beta@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 2:54 PM Subject: [PHP4BETA] PHP 4.0b3 Win32 binaries released > By mistake the Beta 3 Win32 binaries were missing some array functions. I > posted updated binaries on the download page 5 minutes ago. > > Andi > > ----------------- > I just posted Win32 CGI & ISAPI binaries for PHP 4 Beta 3. > A MySQL module will follow in the next couple of days. > > Andi > > At 02:11 PM 11/17/99 +0100, Stig Bakken wrote: > >After three more months of development, PHP 4.0b3 is released. The > >highlights are Java support, new build system (for UNIX), support for > >multi-dimensional get/post/cookie data, object (de)serialization, > >AOLserver support and a new and faster way of passing function parameters > >is now used by the bundled extensions. There is of course a ton of other > >bux fixes and improvements too. > > > >Get it from http://www.php.net/version4/downloads.php > > > > >From the NEWS (previously ChangeLog) file: > > > >November 16 1999, Version 4.0 Beta 3 > >- ucfirst()/ucwords() no longer modify arg1. (Thies) > >- Fixed strtr() not to modify arg1. (Thies) > >- Added Win32 build files for Informix driver and make it > > compile with ZTS (danny) > >- Added tmpfile() function (Stig) > >- Upgraded regex library to alpha3.8 (Sascha) > >- Fixed selecting nested-tables in OCI8. (Thies) > >- RFC-854 fix for internal FTP-Code. Commands have to end in "\r\n" > > (Thies) > >- Fix OpenLink ODBC support (Stig) > >- min(),max(),a[r]sort(),[r]sort(),k[r]sort() now work consistent with the > > language-core. (Thies) > >- tempnam() now uses mkstemp() if available (Stig) > >- serialize() and var_dump() now honor the precision as set in php.ini > > for doubles. (Thies) > >- Improved the Win32 COM module to support [out] parameters (Boris Wedl) > >- Fixed garbage returned at the end of certain Sybase-Columns (Thies) > > Patch submitted by: neal@wanlink.com > >- Added Microsoft SQL Server module for Win32 (Frank) > >- Added support for forcing a variable number of internal function > > arguments by reference. (Andi & Zeev, Zend library) > >- Implemented getprotoby{name,number} (Evan) > >- Added array_pad() function. (Andrei) > >- Added new getservby{name,port} functions. (Evan) > >- Added session.cookie_path and session.cookie_domain (Sascha) > >- Continue processing PHP_INI_SYSTEM knownDirectives after extension= > > (Sam Ruby) > >- Enable IBM DB2 support - Tested against DB2 6.1 UDB on Linux (Rasmus) > >- Added new str_repeat() function. (Andrei) > >- Output-Buffering system is now Thread-Safe. (Thies) > >- implemented OCI8 $lob->WriteToFile() function - very useful for > > streaming large amounts of LOB-Data without to need of a huge buffer. > > (Thies) > >- Added session.use_cookies option (Sascha) > >- Added getcwd() function. (Thies) > >- XML_Parse_Into_Struct no longer eats data. (Thies) > >- Fixed parse_url('-') crash. (Thies) > >- added === operator support. (Andi & Thies, Zend library) > >- unserialize() now gives a notice when passed invalid data. (Thies) > >- Fixed shuffle() so that it no longer breaks on Solaris. (Andrei) > >- Added is_resource(), is_bool() functions. (Thies) > >- Cleaned up File-Module (Thies) > >- Upgraded math-funtions to use new Zend function API (Thies) > >- Fixed zombie problem in shell_exec() and $a = > >some_command > > constructs. (Thies) > >- Thies introduced ZEND_FETCH_RESOURCE2 (Danny). > >- Added Informix driver to list of maintained extensions. (Danny). > >- Informix driver : Changed ifx.ec to use the new high-performance > > ZEND API. (Danny) > >- IXF_LIBDIR environment variable specifies alternate Informix library > > path for configure (Danny). > >- Fixed gmmktime() so that the following should always be true: > > gmmktime([args]) == mktime([args]) + date('Z', mktime([args])) (Jouni) > >- setlocale doesn't anymore screw up things if you forgot to change it > > back to the original settings. (Jouni) > >- Switched to new system where ChangeLog is automagically updated from > > commit messages. NEWS file is now the place for public announcements. > > (Andrei) > >- Fixed refcount problem in XML module. (Thies) > >- Fixed crash in HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA handling (Thies) > >- You can use resources as array-indices again (Thies, Zend library) > >- Fixed pg_fetch_array() with three arguments (Sascha) > > Patch submitted by: brian@soda.berkeley.edu > >- Upgraded a lot internal functions to use new Zend function API (Thies) > >- fdf support ported; not completely tested with latest version 4.0 for > > glibc (Uwe) > >- OCI8 connections are now kept open as long as they are referenced > > (Thies) > >- Cleaned up Directory-Module (Thies) > >- Small fix in Ora_Close (Thies) > >- Ported range() and shuffle() from PHP3 to PHP4 (Andrei) > >- Fixed header("HTTP/..."); behaviour (Sascha) > >- Improved UNIX build system. Now utilizes libtool (Sascha) > >- Upgrade some more internal functions to use new Zend function API. > > (Thies, Zend library) > >- Fixed backwards incompatibility with ereg() (Thies) > >- Updated Zend garbage collection with a much more thorough method. > > (Andi, Zend library) > >- Added the ability to use variable references in the array() construct. > > For example, array("foo" => &$foo). (Andi, Zend library) > >- Added array_reverse() function (Andrei) > >- Some more XML fixes/cleanups (Thies) > >- Updated preg_replace() so that if any argument passed in is an array > > it will make a copy of each entry before converting it to string so that > > the original is intact. If the subject is an array then it will preserve > > the keys in the output as well (Andrei) > >- Updated OCI8 to use the new high-performance Zend function API. (Thies) > >- Configure speedup (Stig) > >- Fixed LOB/Persistent-Connection related OCI8-Crash (Thies) > >- Generalized server-API build procedure on UNIX (Stig) > >- Added '--disable-rpath' option (Sascha) > >- Added AOLserver SAPI module (Sascha) > >- Fixed XML Callbacks. (Thies) > >- Updated ODBC to use the new high-performance Zend function API (kara) > >- Updated zlib to use the new high-performance Zend function API. (Stefan) > >- Updated preg_split() to allow returning only non-empty pieces (Andrei) > >- Updated PCRE to use the new high-performance Zend function API (Andrei) > >- Updated session, dba, mhash, mcrypt, sysvshm, sysvsem, gettext modules > > to use the new high-performance Zend function API (Sascha) > >- Extended var_dump to handle resource type somewhat (Andrei) > >- Updated WDDX to use the new high-performance Zend function API (Andrei) > >- Updated XML to use the new high-performance Zend function API. (Thies) > >- Updated Oracle to use the new high-performance Zend function API. > > (Thies) > >- Improved the performance of the MySQL module significantly by using the > > new high-performance Zend function API. (Zeev) > >- Add support for the Easysoft ODBC-ODCB Bridge (martin@easysoft.com) > >- Fix bug in odbc_setoption, getParameter call incorrect > >(martin@easysoft.com) > >- Ora_Fetch_Into now resets the returned array in all cases (Thies) > >- Fixed NULL-Column problem in Oracle-Driver (Thies) > >- Added extra metadata functions to ODBC, SQLTables etc > > (nick@easysoft.com) > >- Fixed SEGV in mcal make_event_object() and > > typo in mcal_list_alarms() (Andrew Skalski) > >- Fixed Ora_PLogon (Thies) > >- Resourcified Oracle (Thies) > >- Implemented object serialization/deserialization in WDDX (Andrei) > >- Added krsort() function (Thies) > >- Added func_num_args(), func_get_arg() and func_get_args() for standard > > access to variable number of arguments functions (Zeev) > >- Added FTP support (Andrew Skalski) > >- Added optional allowable_tags arguments to strip_tags(), gzgetss() and > > fgetss() to allow you to specify a string of tags that are not to be > > stripped (Rasmus) > >- Upgraded var_dump() to take multiple arguments (Andrei) > >- Resourcified XML (Thies) > >- Fixed a memory leak in the Apache per-directory directives handler > > (Zeev) > >- Added array_count_values() function. (Thies) > >- snmp, pgsql, mysql and gd modules can be built as dynamically loaded > > modules (Greg) > >- OCI8 fix for fetching empty LOBs (Thies) > >- Added user-level callbacks for session module (Sascha) > >- Added support for unknown POST content types (Zeev) > >- Added "wddx" serialization handler for session module (Sascha) > > (automatically enabled, if you compile with --with-wddx) > >- Fixed unserializing objects (Thies) > >- PHP 4.0 now serializes Objects as 'O' (not understood by PHP 3.0), but > > unserializes PHP 3.0 serialized objects as expected. (Thies) > >- Made serialize/unserialize work on classes. If the class is known at > > unserialize() time, you'll get back a fully working object! (Thies) > >- Reworked preg_* functions according to the new PCRE API, which also made > > them behave much more like Perl ones (Andrei) > >- Made it possible to specify external location of PCRE library (Andrei) > >- Updated bundled PCRE library to version 2.08 (Andrei) > >- count()/is_array/is_object... speedups. (Thies) > >- OCI8 supports appending and positioning when saving LOBs (Thies) > >- Added metaphone support (Thies) > >- OCI8 doesn't use define callbacks any longer. (Thies) > >- OCI8 Driver now supports LOBs like PHP 3.0. (Thies) > >- var_dump now dumps the properties of an object (Thies) > >- Rewrote the GET/POST/Cookie data reader to support multi-dimensional > > arrays! (Zeev) > >- Renamed allow_builtin_links to expose_php (defaults to On). This > > directive tells PHP whether it may expose its existence to the outside > > world, e.g. by adding itself to the Web server header (Zeev) > >- Added support for transparent session id propagation (Sascha) > >- Made WDDX serialize object properties properly (Andrei) > >- Fixed WDDX mem leak when undefined variable is passed in > > for serialization (Andrei) > >- Added session_unset() function (Andrei) > >- Fixed double session globals shutdown crash (Andrei) > >- Fixed crash related to ignore_user_abort ini entry (Andrei) > >- Added support for external entropy sources for session id creation > > (on Unices /dev/random and /dev/urandom) (Sascha) > >- Added gpc_globals variable directive to php.ini. By default it is On, > > but if it is set to Off, GET, POST and Cookie variables will not be > > inserted to the global scope. Mostly makes sense when coupled with > > track_vars (Zeev) > >- Added versioning support for shared library (Sascha) > > This allows concurrent use of PHP 3.0 and PHP 4.0 as Apache modules. See > > the end of the INSTALL file for more information. > >- Added second parameter to array_keys which specifies search value > > for which the key should be returned (Andrei) > >- Resourcified Informix driver (Danny) > >- New resource handling for odbc, renamed to php_odbc.[ch] > >- Make set_time_limit() work on Unix (Rasmus) > >- Added connection handling support (Rasmus) > >- Improved the Sybase-CT module to make use of resources (Zeev) > >- Improved the mSQL module to make use of resources (Zeev) > >- Changed mysql_query() and mysql_db_query() to return false in case of > > saving the result set data fails (Zeev) > >- Improved the resource mechanism - resources were not getting freed as > > soon as they could (Zeev) > >- Added shared memory module for session data storage (Sascha) > >- Fixed session.auto_start (Sascha) > >- Fixed several problems with output buffering and HEAD requests (Zeev) > >- Fixed HTTP Status code issue with ISAPI module (Zeev) > >- Fixed a problem that prevented $GLOBALS from working properly (Zeev, > > Zend library) > >- Ported newest GetImageSize (Thies) > >- Added session compile support in Win32 (Andi) > >- Added -d switch to the CGI binary that allows overriding php.ini values > > from the command line (Zeev) > >- Fixed a crash that would occur if wddx_deserialize did not receive > > a valid packet (Andrei) > >- Fixed a bugglet when redefining a class at run-time (Andi, Zend library) > >- Fixed sem_get() on AIX (Sascha) > >- Fixed fopen() to work with URL's in Win32 (Andi & Zeev) > >- Fixed include_path for Win32 (Andi, Zend library) > >- Fixed bug in ISAPI header sending function (Charles) > >- Fixed memory leak when using undefined values (Andi & Zeev, Zend > > library) > >- Added output_buffering directive to php.ini, to enable output buffering > > for all PHP scripts - default is off (Zeev). > >- Fixed some more class inheritance issues (Zeev, Zend library) > >- Fixed Apache build wrt to shared modules on FreeBSD/Linux (Sascha) > >- Added session.extern_referer_chk which checks whether session ids were > > referred to by an external site and eliminates them (Sascha) > >- Improved session id generation (Sascha) > >- Improved speed of uniqid() by using the combined LCG and removing > > the extra usleep() (Sascha) > >- Introduced general combined linear congruential generator (Sascha) > >- Made ldap_close back into an alias for ldap_unbind (Andrei) > >- OciFetchInto now resets the returned array in all cases (Thies) > >- Fixed mysql_errno() to work with recent versions of MySQL (Zeev) > >- Fixed a problem with define() and boolean values (Zeev) > >- Fixed inclusion of gd/freetype functions (Sascha) > >- Fixed persistency of MHASH_* constants (Sascha) > >- Oracle is now ZTS-Safe (Thies) > >- Fixed flushing of cached information to disk in DBA's DB2 module > > (Sascha) > >- OCI8 is now ZTS-Safe (Thies) > >- Fixed is_writeable/is_writable problem; they are both defined now > > (Andrei) > >- Imported PHP 3.0 diskfreespace() function (Thies) > >- Fixed thread-safety issues in the MySQL module (Zeev) > >- Fixed thread-safe support for dynamic modules (Zeev) > >- Fixed Sybase CT build process (Zeev) > > > > > > > > > >-- > >PHP 4.0 Beta Mailing List > ><http://www.php.net/version4/> > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php4beta-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > >For additional commands, e-mail: php4beta-help@lists.php.net > >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php4beta-admin@lists.php.net > > --- > Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> > http://www.zend.com/ > > -- > PHP 4.0 Beta Mailing List <http://www.php.net/version4/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php4beta-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php4beta-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php4beta-admin@lists.php.net >