PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Virtually every of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in as well. The whole idea behind the language is to allow web developers write dynamically generated pages quickly. The publishers have done a really good job on this version; and already there are a couple of noticeable fixes. These fixes include; resolving a critical issue reported as PHP bug#53632 and CVE-2010-4645, where conversions from string to double might cause the PHP interpreter to hang on systems using x87 FPU registers, fixed crash in zip extract method, fixed a possible double free in map extension, fixed NULL pointer dereference in ZipArchive, and many more.

Of course, the publishers have also included a couple of other wonderful features that include the following; multiple improvements to the FPM SAPI, addition of follow_location (enabled by default) option for the http stream support, added start support for zip stream, addition of 3^rd parameter to get_html_translation_table, implementation of FR #52348, added new constant ZEND_MULTIBYTE to detect zend multibyte at runtime, and a few others. For a freeware program to have lots of wonderful features; then it is definitely one of the best around.

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