PHP for Mac

April, 13th 2024 - 18.86 MB - Open Source

Latest Version

PHP 8.3.6 LATEST
Review by

Daniel Leblanc
Operating System

Mac OS X
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PHP for Mac is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP for macOS powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML.

Instead of lots of commands to output HTML (as seen in C or Perl), pages contain HTML with embedded code that does "something" (in this case, output "Hi, I'm a PHP script!"). The code is enclosed in special start and end processing instructions that allow you to jump into and out of "PHP mode."

What distinguishes PHP for macOS from something like client-side JavaScript is that the code is executed on the server, generating HTML which is then sent to the client. The client would receive the results of running that script, but would not know what the underlying code was. You can even configure your web server to process all your HTML files with PHP, and then there's really no way that users can tell what you have up your sleeve.

The best things in using PHP are that it is extremely simple for a newcomer, but offers many advanced features for a professional programmer. Don't be afraid reading the long list of PHP's features. You can jump in, in a short time, and start writing simple scripts in a few hours.

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What's new in this version:

Core:
- Fixed GH-13569 (GC buffer unnecessarily grows up to GC_MAX_BUF_SIZE when scanning WeakMaps)
- Fixed bug GH-13612 (Corrupted memory in destructor with weak references)
- Fixed bug GH-13446 (Restore exception handler after it finishes)
- Fixed bug GH-13784 (AX_GCC_FUNC_ATTRIBUTE failure)
- Fixed bug GH-13670 (GC does not scale well with a lot of objects created in destructor)

DOM:
- Add some missing ZPP checks
- Fix potential memory leak in XPath evaluation results

FPM:
- Fixed GH-11086 (FPM: config test runs twice in daemonised mode)
- Fix incorrect check in fpm_shm_free()

GD:
- Fixed bug GH-12019 (add GDLIB_CFLAGS in feature tests)

Gettext:
- Fixed sigabrt raised with dcgettext/dcngettext calls with gettext 0.22.5 with category set to LC_ALL

MySQLnd:
- Fix GH-13452 (Fixed handshake response [mysqlnd])
- Fix incorrect charset length in check_mb_eucjpms()

Opcache:
- Fixed GH-13508 (JITed QM_ASSIGN may be optimized out when op1 is null)
- Fixed GH-13712 (Segmentation fault for enabled observers when calling trait method of internal trait when opcache is loaded)

Random:
- Fixed bug GH-13544 (Pre-PHP 8.2 compatibility for mt_srand with unknown modes)
- Fixed bug GH-13690 (Global Mt19937 is not properly reset in-between requests when MT_RAND_PHP is used)

Session:
- Fixed bug GH-13680 (Segfault with session_decode and compilation error)

SPL:
- Fixed bug GH-13685 (Unexpected null pointer in zend_string.h)

Standard:
- Fixed bug GH-11808 (Live filesystem modified by tests)
- Fixed GH-13402 (Added validation of `\n` in $additional_headers of mail())
- Fixed bug GH-13203 (file_put_contents fail on strings over 4GB on Windows)
- Fixed bug GHSA-pc52-254m-w9w7 (Command injection via array-ish $command parameter of proc_open)
- Fixed bug GHSA-wpj3-hf5j-x4v4 __Host-/__Secure- cookie bypass due to partial
- Fixed bug GHSA-h746-cjrr-wfmr (password_verify can erroneously return true, opening ATO risk)
- Fixed bug GHSA-fjp9-9hwx-59fq (mb_encode_mimeheader runs endlessly for some inputs)
- Fix bug GH-13932 (Attempt to fix mbstring on windows build)