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PHP 5 also introduced new extensions aimed at easing the storage and manipulation of data. Significant new features include SimpleXML for handling XML documents, and SQLite, a basic and easy to use database interface.
== How Popular is PHP? ==
A quick review of some statistics gives a very clear indication of the phenomenal widespread use of PHP. A company called Netcraft specializes in recorded data about the types of web servers and web server modules that are used on the internet. As of April 2007 Netcraft reports that PHP is used on over 20,000,000 distinct web domains.
A web survey by SecuritySpace also lists PHP as the most widely deployed Apache module. It is safe to say that PHP has taken the internet by storm.