Some of the key features of PHP 5 include:
The Zend Engine II with a new object model and dozens of new features.
XML support have been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions is now focused around the excellent LIBXML2 library (http ://www.xmlsoft.org/).
A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML as PHP objects. It can also interface with the DOM extension and Vice-versa.
A brand new built-in SOAP extension for interoperability with Web Services.
A new MySQL extension named mysqli for developers using MySQL 4.1 and later. This new extension includes an object-oriented interface in addition to a traditional interface; As well as the support for many of Mysqls new features, such as prepared statements.
SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite, please visit their website.
Streams has been greatly improved, including the ability to access low-level sockets operations on Streams.
And lots more ...
PHP5 added the latest zendii engine;
Perfect support for XML;
Support SAOP Agreement;
Close integration with MySQL database server to support new features of mysql4.* in object mode
Binding the new database Sqllite to PHP
Flow-Control enhancement
Abandon the unreasonable part of PHP4
PHP5 is said to be suitable for enterprise-level development, object-oriented, more perfect class processing
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