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layout: post
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title: "PHP 5.4 released"
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date: 2012-03-20 13:31:12
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tags: [php]
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permalink: /blog/2012/3/20/php-5-4-released
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published: true
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author:
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name: Gergely Polonkai
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email: gergely@polonkai.eu
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After a long time of waiting, PHP announced 5.4 release on 1 March (also,
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today they announced that they finally migrate to Git, which is sweet from my
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point of view, but it doesn’t really matter).
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About a year ago we became very agressive towards a developer who created our
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internal e-learning system. Their database was very insecure, and they didn’t
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really follow industry standards in many ways. Thus, we forced them to move
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from Windows + Apache 2.0 + PHP 5.2 + MySQL 4.0 to Debian Linux 6.0 + Apache
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2.2 + PHP 5.3 + MySQL 5.1. It was fun (well, from our point of view), as their
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coders… well… they are not so good. The code that ran “smoothly” on the
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old system failed at many points on the new one. So they code and code, and
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write more code. And they still didn’t finish. And now 5.4 is here. Okay, I
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know it will take some time to get into the Debian repositories, but it’s
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here. And they removed `register_globals`, which will kill that funny code again
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at so many points that they will soon get to rewrite the whole code to make it
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work. And I just sit here in my so-much-comfortable chair, and laugh. Am I
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evil?
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