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<seo title="Difference between PHP 5.2 and 5.3" metakeywords="PHP 5.2,PHP5.3, hosting with php 5.3,php 5.3 web hosting" metadescription="Web hosting with php 5.2 and php5.3" /><div align="justify">As you know, life changes every single second. A great number of events happens with a blink of an eye. Different areas of everyday life undergo daily changes and bring something new to make it easier and better. Web hosting area is no exception. MyIdealHost is glad to share great news with you. We have improved our service for you to get the best of it. Just follow this article to the end and you'll be the first to know this striking info.

Most sites on the web are built either on HTML or PHP. Some people prefer HTML as it is easier than PHP and the latter requires some basic knowledge in coding. In this article we'll focus on PHP. Most web hosting providers now have PHP 5.2 version. On February 2012 PHP 5.3 version has been released. Though it has several features added and bugs fixed, few providers upgrade their servers to it. The reason is simple: as the majority of web sites are built on PHP 5.2, after the upgrade most of them will stop working or will be working incorrectly. So, are you to choose between hosts with PHP 5.2 and 5.3?

Now comes the main and the most interesting part. With MyIdealHost you can host web sites of both PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3. Yes, you got it right! We offer these two versions on a single server and you do not need to worry about the host switch. 

PHP 5.3.0 offers a wide range of new features:

* Support for namespaces, Late Static Bindings, jump labels (limited goto), native Closures  has been added.
* There are two new magic methods, __callStatic and __invoke.
* Nowdoc syntax is now supported, similar to Heredoc syntax, but with single quotes.
* Constants can now be declared outside a class using the const keyword.
* The ternary operator now has a shorthand form: ?:.
* The HTTP stream wrapper now considers all status codes from 200 to 399 to be successful.
* Dynamic access to static methods is now possible.
* Exceptions can now be nested.
* A garbage collector for circular references has been added, and is enabled by default.
* The mail function now supports logging of sent email.

To sum it all up, in case you need to have PHP 5.3 version installed on the server for your site to work properly, just let us know and we'll be more than happy to assist you. Now every single customer of MyIdealHost can try our improved service and if you are not with us yet, you can go to http://myidealhost.com and sign up. Also, we provide several promotional codes, using which you'll get a discount for your purchase (http://promocode.myidealhost.com/). 

We are doing our best for you to say that MyIdealHost is 'my ideal host'!</div>
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