Posted by axlq on 07/31/06 13:40

In article <eyZyg.183646$F_3.123922@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net>,
Carl Vondrick <usenet@carlsoft.net> wrote:
>> I browsed the archives, but there are lot of threads on the subject,
>> but not necessarily up to date.
>
>Whatever you do, make sure you buy a PHP 5 book. PHP 4 is vastly old
>and out-dated.

PHP 5 is also vastly under-deployed. If your job is to develop
web sites to be hosted on an ISPs server, it is far better to use
PHP 4, because the features of PHP 5 are almost guaranteed to be
UNavailable on most servers, unless you have your own server on a
colocation service.

-A

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