gaogier Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 Hello I have a php 3 and php 4 book, which I never really read not alone learnt anything, I only used this to keep my site going, however I am really interested in moving my sites forward further, however I am not sure how. I have been looking for a php 5 book but the book is sold out everywhere. I am therefore interested in a php 6 book, anyone know if I should get this book or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 No. Noone knows what will be in PHP6 and when it will be released. Stick to PHP 5.2/5.3 books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 The transition between 2 whole versions takes a very long time so therefore you should be focusing on version 5 (5.2 upwards). There are still many sites running that were written on php 4 that are only just making the upgrade to 5. php 6 will certainly not have a massive feature update on 5 but more of a cleanup and improvement on the existing functions. There are plenty of php 5 books available on Amazon, however even if you buy a book that has version 6 in the title it is most likely still going to focus on topics that are available in version 5 such as OO. It will probably highlight the differences between version 5 and 6 showing parts of code that may only work on the latter version. If it is a beginners book then I would guess the core will still apply to even version 4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 If you buy a book on PHP 6, you're being scammed. There exists no such thing as PHP 6 right now. These kind of books only exist because there are greedy and/or stupid book publishers that decided it would be a brilliant idea to release books about a development branch without even an alpha release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 I think the publishers just use 6 in the title to make it sound like the book is bang upto date. I've just been looking at a few, and the likes of, 'Beginning PHP 6 & MySQL', type of books have nothing to do with a specific version. As I said the core probably still applies to version 4. It's just a marketing thing, or they resell the same book as last year only with 6 in the title instead of 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Right, as i said, greedy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 My favourite was a 'PHP6' book, that in code examples used features long ago marked as deprecated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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