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9 <p>Here's a simple list from my favourite website:
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12 <li>The Zend Engine II with a new object model and dozens of new features.
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14 <li>XML support has been completely redone in PHP
5, all extensions are
15 now focused around the excellent libxml2 library
16 (http://www.xmlsoft.org/).
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18 <li>A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML
19 as PHP objects. It can also interface with the DOM extension and
22 <li>A brand new built-in SOAP extension for interoperability with Web Services.
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24 <li>A new MySQL extension named MySQLi for developers using MySQL
4.1 and
25 later. This new extension includes an object-oriented interface in
26 addition to a traditional interface; as well as support for many of
27 MySQL's new features, such as prepared statements.
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29 <li>SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite,
30 please visit their website.
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32 <li>Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access low-level socket operations on streams.
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34 <li>And lots more...
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36 <ul><li>Sublists
</li><li>work
</li><li>too!
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