PHP 5.2.0 Released (Slashdot)

PHP 5.2.0 Released (Slashdot)
ShaunC writes “The PHP Group and Zend have released PHP 5.2.0, and upgrades are encouraged. The 5.2.0 update offers several security fixes, including patches for a couple recently announced buffer overflows in input parsing. This release also includes a number of library upgrades, bug fixes, and default bundling of the popular JSON extension to help with AJAX development. See the full changelog

Zend hails PHP for Microsoft, IBM (InfoWorld)

Zend hails PHP for Microsoft, IBM (InfoWorld)
( InfoWorld ) - Zend Technologies is perhaps the first name in PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor), the popular open-source scripting language for Web development. The company both participates in development of PHP and offers products around the server-side development platform. Andi Gutmans, a cofounder of the company and its vice president of technology, spoke with InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul

Read input and manipulate files on Linux systems with PHP scripts (Tech Republic)

Read input and manipulate files on Linux systems with PHP scripts (Tech Republic)
If you are already familiar with PHP code for Web sites, then you’ll find it works great for command-line scripting on Linux systems.