Features of PHP 5.3.8

The current version of PHP is PHP 5.3.8. The PHP 5.3.8 is highly beneficial when compared to the earlier versions of PHP. PHP 5.3.8 has enhanced windows support, improved portability, offered pixilation support and offered much more benefits. The benefits or advantages of PHP 5.3.8 are:

• In PHP 5.3.8, windows support has been enhanced to functions such as checkdnsrr(), dns_get_record(), fnmatch() and much more functions which reduce the time of machine and client in accessing the details.
• In PHP 5.3.8, portability has been improved for stat(), touch(), filemtime() and filesize() functions.
• In PHP 5.3.8’s windows version, a set of constants have been prefixed in PHP_WINDOWS_*.
• In PHP 5.3.8, a new SAPI model named litespeed has been introduced, which enables fast CGI.
• Imagefilter() function has been introduced for pixelation  support in PHP5.3.8.
• In PHP 5.3.8, few functions have been implemented natively, making them available on all operating systems.
• In PHP 5.3.8, a new Mysqli extension has been introduced. Thus PHP 5.3.8 provides an object oriented interface along with traditional interface.
• In PHP 5.3.8, streams have been greatly advanced.
• The ability to access low level socket functions has been added in PHP5.3.8.