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 PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. A lot of the applications we pre-install make use of PHP.
Surprisingly, many webhosts do not know how to update their php installations. In the past, we have written tutorials and upgraded PHP for third party webhosts free of charge.
To get most out of your PHP experience, we have compiled a lot of optional PHP extensions that you rarely find elsewhere. On our shared hosting plans PHP is run in fast-cgi mode.
All of our default php installations feature:
- Zend Optimizer to boost the performance of your average PHP script by around 450%.
- EAccelerator
- Ioncube Loaders
- Suhosin
Custom PHP Extensions
If you have a need for a very specific php extension, our server administrators will at first evaluate if it makes sense to offer the extension for all shared hosting customers, if the requirement is too specific, we can make them available with our Virtual Private Servers (VPS) and we can even manage your VPS for you so that you only tell us what you need and we make it happen for you.
Please feel free to send us an email and ask us for the link to our phpinfo or let us know your PHP needs, if this won't convince you, what else could? :)
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PHP News
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PHP 5.3.3 Released!
The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate
availability of PHP 5.3.3. This release focuses on improving the
stability and security of the PHP 5.3.x branch with over 100 bug
fixes, some of which are security related. All users are encouraged
to upgrade to this release.
Backwards incompatible change:
- Methods with the same name as the last element of a namespaced class name
will no longer be treated as constructor. This change doesn't affect
non-namespaced classes.
<?php
namespace Foo;
class Bar {
public function Bar() {
// treated as constructor in PHP 5.3.0-5.3.2
// treated as regular method in PHP 5.3.3
}
}
?>
There is no impact on migration from 5.2.x because namespaces were only introduced in PHP 5.3.
Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.3:
- Rewrote var_export() to use smart_str rather than output buffering, prevents data disclosure if a fatal error occurs (CVE-2010-2531).
- Fixed a possible resource destruction issues in shm_put_var().
- Fixed a possible information leak because of interruption of XOR operator.
- Fixed a possible memory corruption because of unexpected call-time pass by refernce and following memory clobbering through callbacks.
- Fixed a possible memory corruption in ArrayObject::uasort().
- Fixed a possible memory corruption in parse_str().
- Fixed a possible memory corruption in pack().
- Fixed a possible memory corruption in substr_replace().
- Fixed a possible memory corruption in addcslashes().
- Fixed a possible stack exhaustion inside fnmatch().
- Fixed a possible dechunking filter buffer overflow.
- Fixed a possible arbitrary memory access inside sqlite extension.
- Fixed string format validation inside phar extension.
- Fixed handling of session variable serialization on certain prefix characters.
- Fixed a NULL pointer dereference when processing invalid XML-RPC requests (Fixes CVE-2010-0397, bug #51288).
- Fixed SplObjectStorage unserialization problems (CVE-2010-2225).
- Fixed possible buffer overflows in mysqlnd_list_fields, mysqlnd_change_user.
- Fixed possible buffer overflows when handling error packets in mysqlnd.
Key enhancements in PHP 5.3.3 include:
- Upgraded bundled sqlite to version 3.6.23.1.
- Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 8.02.
- Added FastCGI Process Manager (FPM) SAPI.
- Added stream filter support to mcrypt extension.
- Added full_special_chars filter to ext/filter.
- Fixed a possible crash because of recursive GC invocation.
- Fixed bug #52238 (Crash when an Exception occured in iterator_to_array).
- Fixed bug #52041 (Memory leak when writing on uninitialized variable returned from function).
- Fixed bug #52060 (Memory leak when passing a closure to method_exists()).
- Fixed bug #52001 (Memory allocation problems after using variable variables).
- Fixed bug #51723 (Content-length header is limited to 32bit integer with Apache2 on Windows).
- Fixed bug #48930 (__COMPILER_HALT_OFFSET__ incorrect in PHP >= 5.3).
For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available on
http://php.net/migration53, detailing the changes between those
releases and PHP 5.3.
For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.3, see the ChangeLog.
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PHP 5.2.14 Released!
The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate
availability of PHP 5.2.14. This release focuses on improving the
stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 60 bug fixes, some of which
are security related.
This release marks the end of the active support for PHP
5.2. Following this release the PHP 5.2 series will receive no further
active bug maintenance. Security fixes for PHP 5.2 might be published on a
case by cases basis. All users of PHP 5.2 are encouraged to upgrade to
PHP 5.3.
Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.14:
- Rewrote var_export() to use smart_str rather than output buffering, prevents data disclosure if a fatal error occurs.
- Fixed a possible interruption array leak in strrchr().(CVE-2010-2484)
- Fixed a possible interruption array leak in strchr(), strstr(), substr(), chunk_split(), strtok(), addcslashes(), str_repeat(), trim().
- Fixed a possible memory corruption in substr_replace().
- Fixed SplObjectStorage unserialization problems (CVE-2010-2225).
- Fixed a possible stack exaustion inside fnmatch().
- Fixed a NULL pointer dereference when processing invalid XML-RPC requests (Fixes CVE-2010-0397, bug #51288).
- Fixed handling of session variable serialization on certain prefix characters.
- Fixed a possible arbitrary memory access inside sqlite extension. Reported by Mateusz Kocielski.
Key enhancements in PHP 5.2.14 include:
- Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 8.02.
- Updated timezone database to version 2010.5.
- Fixed bug #52238 (Crash when an Exception occured in iterator_to_array).
- Fixed bug #52237 (Crash when passing the reference of the property of a non-object).
- Fixed bug #52041 (Memory leak when writing on uninitialized variable returned from function).
- Fixed bug #51822 (Segfault with strange __destruct() for static class variables).
- Fixed bug #51552 (debug_backtrace() causes segmentation fault and/or memory issues).
- Fixed bug #49267 (Linking fails for iconv on MacOS: "Undefined symbols: _libiconv").
To prepare for upgrading to PHP 5.3, now that PHP 5.2's support ended, a
migration guide available on http://php.net/migration53, details the changes between
PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3.
For a full list of changes in PHP 5.2.14 see the ChangeLog at
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.14.
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TestFest 2010
PHP is proud to announce TestFest 2010. TestFest is PHP's annual campaign
to increase the overall code coverage of PHP through PHPT tests. During
TestFest, PHP User Groups and individuals around the world organize local
events where new tests are written and new contributors are introduced to
PHP's testing suite.
Last year was very successful with 887 tests submitted and a code coverage
increase of 2.5%. This year we hope to do better.
TestFest's own SVN repository and reporting tools are back online for this
year's event. New to TestFest this year are automated test environment build
tools as well as screencasts showing those build tools in action.
Please visit the TestFest
2010 wiki page for all the details on events being organized in your area,
or find out how you can organize your own event.
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