Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/03/07 21:38

AchimR wrote:
> 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

mysqli was introduced in PHP 4.1.

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