Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 09/03/07 22:19

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 ?

That's what I did - and it worked for me.
I've been on PHP4 since before the turn of the century.

Finally I switched IPP's and my new provider lets me toggle between PHP4
and PHP5 through a radio button on an HTML form. I finally made that
change about a week ago, even though PHP5's been around for a long time.

Best yet - all of my old PHP4 stuff still works, and what I learned
about the older version remains useful in the newer version.

The only learning curve I'm finding is that there's a whole bunch of new
stuff that you can do with classes and objects that you couldn't do
before.

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