new xampp out

[egg82]

for those using xampp on their servers like I am, I wanted to alert you to the fact that 1.8 came out of beta and has been fully released, including an upgrade package.

The release is extremely important, as it contains a newer PHP version (the version in 1.7 had some massive security holes)
also, the new PHPMyAdmin is pretty cool, though I still recommend using a command line for moving large databases.

Just an alert, as people don't tend to keep up with these things as closely as I do.

[doodle-bread14]

And what does the upgrade do?

[Diki]

At 8/2/12 08:21 AM, doodle-bread14 wrote: And what does the upgrade do?

Newer versions of Apache/PHP/MySQL/PHPMyAdmin, among other things.
The upgrade to PHP 5.4 is pretty significant as PHP 5.4 allows you to do new things, such as use short-hand syntax for creating arrays:

$myArray = [1,2,3,4,5];

No more verbose calling of the array constructor.

[doodle-bread14]

At 8/2/12 08:59 AM, Diki wrote: $myArray = [1,2,3,4,5];

No more verbose calling of the array constructor.

Wooo arrays! Very useful. The array example you wrote above is much easier than this:

FOR i = 1 TO 10 STEP 1
 PRINT i
NEXT i

Oh and try to guess what language is that.

[egg82]

At 8/2/12 09:07 AM, doodle-bread14 wrote: FOR i = 1 TO 10 STEP 1
PRINT i
NEXT i

Oh and try to guess what language is that.

BASIC, do I get a cookie? xD

and yes, there's quite a few new things available in the upgrade, but I focus on the security part.

also, the upgrade's pretty easy. I did it on my server and aside from manually replacing a custom config, it only took a minute.

[doodle-bread14]

At 8/2/12 05:19 PM, egg82 wrote: BASIC, do I get a cookie? xD

You were sooo close, but it isn't BASIC.

[NinoGrounds]

At 8/2/12 06:17 PM, doodle-bread14 wrote:

At 8/2/12 05:19 PM, egg82 wrote: BASIC, do I get a cookie? xD

You were sooo close, but it isn't BASIC.

It's QBASIC.

[egg82]

At 8/2/12 09:25 PM, NinoGrounds wrote: It's QBASIC.

could also be DarkBASIC
most BASIC languages are the same, on that simplistic level.

Anyway, i'll be glad to not have to keep using "= array();" - christ, that was a pain.

[doodle-bread14]

Anyway, i'll be glad to not have to keep using "= array();" - christ, that was a pain.

Pain in the ass. And I haven't got to use Chilli Peppers. But you probably don't know what "Chilli Peppers" is, do you?

[egg82]

At 8/3/12 05:02 PM, doodle-bread14 wrote: Pain in the ass. And I haven't got to use Chilli Peppers. But you probably don't know what "Chilli Peppers" is, do you?

I have absolutely no idea what that is, no. o.o

[Diki]

At 8/3/12 05:02 PM, doodle-bread14 wrote: Pain in the ass. And I haven't got to use Chilli Peppers. But you probably don't know what "Chilli Peppers" is, do you?

Is it related to chili peppers? ;)
But other than the Red Hot Chili Peppers I don't know what the hell this is referring to (not that that would even make sense in this context).

[egg82]

At 8/3/12 05:24 PM, Diki wrote: Is it related to chili peppers? ;)
But other than the Red Hot Chili Peppers I don't know what the hell this is referring to (not that that would even make sense in this context).

you never know, xampp/lampp could have included a music video in the package :P