PHP: Migrating from PHP 5.5.x to PHP 5.6.x - Manual

[/] Downloads Documentation Get Involved Help Getting Started Introduction A simple tutorial Language Reference Basic syntax Types Variables Constants Expressions Operators Control Structures Functions Classes and Objects Namespaces Errors Exceptions Generators References Explained Predefined Variables Predefined Exceptions Predefined Interfaces and Classes Context options and parameters Supported Protocols and Wrappers Security Introduction General considerations Installed as CGI binary Installed as an Apache module Filesystem Security Database Security Error Reporting Using Register Globals User Submitted Data Magic Quotes Hiding PHP Keeping Current Features HTTP authentication with PHP Cookies Sessions Dealing with XForms Handling file uploads Using remote files Connection handling Persistent Database Connections Safe Mode Command line usage Garbage Collection DTrace Dynamic Tracing Function Reference Affecting PHP's Behaviour Audio Formats Manipulation Authentication Services Command Line Specific Extensions Compression and Archive Extensions Credit Card Processing Cryptography Extensions Database Extensions Date and Time Related Extensions File System Related Extensions Human Language and Character Encoding Support Image Processing and Generation Mail Related Extensions Mathematical Extensions Non-Text MIME Output Process Control Extensions Other Basic Extensions Other Services Search Engine Extensions Server Specific Extensions Session Extensions Text Processing Variable and Type Related Extensions Web Services Windows Only Extensions XML Manipulation Keyboard Shortcuts ? This help j Next menu item k Previous menu item g p Previous man page g n Next man page G Scroll to bottom g g Scroll to top g h Goto homepage g s Goto search (current page) / Focus search box Backward incompatible changes » « Other Changes PHP Manual Appendices Change language: English Brazilian Portuguese Chinese (Simplified) French German Japanese Korean Romanian Russian Spanish Turkish Other Edit Report a Bug Migrating from PHP 5.5.x to PHP 5.6.x Table of Contents Backward incompatible changes New features Deprecated features in PHP 5.6.x Changed functions New functions OpenSSL changes in PHP 5.6.x Other changes to extensions New global constants Most improvements in PHP 5.6.x have no impact on existing code. There are a few incompatibilities and new features that should be considered, and code should be tested before switching PHP versions in production environments. See also the migration guides for PHP versions 5.0.x , 5.1.x , 5.2.x , 5.3.x , 5.4.x and 5.5.x . add a note User Contributed Notes 1 note up down -90 stefan at sjoberga dot se ¶ 10 months ago Watch out for the new default charset (selecting charset may not be anything you can do with your Internet service provider). Having a lot of old databases with latin1 encoding generates work with the upgrade. add a note Appendices History of PHP and Related Projects Migrating from PHP 5.6.x to PHP 7.0.x Migrating from PHP 5.5.x to PHP 5.6.x Migrating from PHP 5.4.x to PHP 5.5.x Migrating from PHP 5.3.x to PHP 5.4.x Migrating from PHP 5.2.x to PHP 5.3.x Migrating from PHP 5.1.x to PHP 5.2.x Migrating from PHP 5.0.x to PHP 5.1.x Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5.0.x Classes and Objects (PHP 4) Debugging in PHP Configure options php.ini directives Extension List/Categorization List of Function Aliases List of Reserved Words List of Resource Types List of Available Filters List of Supported Socket Transports PHP type comparison tables List of Parser Tokens Userland Naming Guide About the manual Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Index listing Changelog Copyright © 2001-2016 The PHP Group My PHP.net Contact Other PHP.net sites Mirror sites Privacy policy