Posted by shimmyshack on 03/06/07 23:12

On Mar 6, 10:52 pm, "LiquidEyes" <n...@liquideyes.net> wrote:
> > Yeah PHP4 - it might be the newest v4, but PHP6 is just round the
> > corner, supporting unicode etc... that will make even PHP5 obselete!
>
> I do appreciate the advice.
>
> For some reason I thought PHP4 was kinda like Apache v1.3. I.e. old, but
> stable and still maintained. I guess not. :D
>
for instance, JSON is a core part of PHP5, so no need to load extra
modules, or instantiate classes, the XML support in php5 is better
than php4, and of course the class structure is better, although still
not what Java purists want, we are all hoping that PHP6 will provide a
"pure" implementation with things like namespaces etc... when that
happens PHP will become even greater, and much easier to use in many
ways. I still have PHP4 applications based aroun huge 3000 line long
classes, for things that are now core PHP5, eventually I want to be
able to hold my head up hight when I say I use PHP, cos at the moment
even Ruby programmers sneer at me!

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