PHP 5.0 Beta 1 released

The event web developers had long been waiting for took place on June 29, 2003, when
 the official version of the scripting 
 engine PHP 5.0.0 saw the light of day with the Beta 1 label.
 Of the long-awaited features, the one programmers will appreciate is support for object-oriented programming, especially the new object model
 tied to the new Zend Engine 2.0. 
 Other highlights include improved and expanded support for XML, XSLT, streams (sequences of bytes), and much more.