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PHP is a scripting language which use widely for general purpose. The PHP language mostly use for web development and can be embedded into HTML. Since the earliest version of PHP 4 has been release to the world, change many significantly. Each major revision of PHP has required code changes, as language features were added, modified, and obsoleted. And now, PHP 6 will release thus depending on your PHP code, PHP 6 will be no exception.

For now PHP 6 isn’t yet available as a pre-built package, you can download and install a development snapshot of PHP 6 to check out the new features and verify your scripts remain functional. Since PHP 6 removes some backwards-compatibility features (which, in the long term, is a good thing), you should test your existing code thoroughly.

So, just download and build the PHP 6. To compile, install, and run PHP 6, you must have the GNU make utility, a compiler such as gcc, some additional libraries to power new PHP features, and a Web server. To compile and install PHP 6 , you need:

* Apache with development headers, such as apache-prefork-dev. The threaded MPM version of Apache is not recommended for use by the PHP group for production use.
* An International Component for Unicode (ICU) library, like libicu-dev
* The XML2 development headers, libxml2-dev

And for Ubuntu user like me, Ubuntu has some depedencies which needed to use PHP 6. Just type the command below and instanly Ubuntu will install the package.

$ sudo apt-get install apache-prefork-dev libicu-dev libxml2-dev

You can get the latest PHP 6 source package from php website. Save the source package as a file in your home folder and unpack it. Run and test it.

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