Posted by AchimR on 09/03/07 21:17

varois83 wrote:
> Hi
>
> I would like to learn PHP and I know we are at version 5. A friend
> let me use 2 of his books but they cover PHP 4. Is that ok for
> starting to learn the language? Or should I go straight with a PHP 5
> book ?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Patrick
>
Hi

Not really,

there are significant differences in PHP5 compared to 4, especially the
OOP class use, but also differences between mysql and mysqli are not
shown in a PHP4 book, simply as mysqli has only been introduced with PHP5.

Achim

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