New Extensions
The following are new extensions added (by default) as of PHP 5.3.0:
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Enchant
- Abstraction layer ontop of spell libraries
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Fileinfo
- Improved and more solid replacement (full BC) for the
Mimetype extension, which has been
removed.
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INTL
- Internationalization extension. INTL is a wrapper around the
» ICU library.
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Phar
- Implementation of PHP-Archive files.
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SQLite3
- Support for SQLite version 3 databases.
mysqlnd is a new core library shipped with PHP. It is a PHP-specific
replacement for libmysql. mysqlnd will be used to build the
mysql, mysqli
and PDO_MYSQL if libmysql isnt found
on the system, but it may also be used instead of libmysql.