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Different functions and options are always being added to PHP. Although new versions generally don't create much backward compatibility issues it is usually prudent to write production code that you know will work on servers running a slightly older version of the language.

It's been a while in the making but yesterday saw the release of the latest major version of Wordpress. I had a feeling it would be pretty soon as there as the final release candidate (RC3) was released last week. You can the Wordpress 3.0 download page below:

Download Wordpress 3.0

To get Phing you will need to have PEAR installed along with PHP. On a Windows system you can install PEAR by running the go-pear.bat file and running through the prompts there.

To get Phing just run the following commands.

pear channel-discover pear.phing.info
pear install phing/phing

You should see the install output looking like this:

There is little syntactical difference between MySQL 4 and MySQL 5, but sometimes finding that difference can pinpoint a bug. The mysql_get_server_info() function will tell you what version of MySQL you are using. You can call it with no parameters, in which case it picks the most recently created MySQL resource, or with the resource handle created with mysql_connect().

Here is an example of how to use it.