evulture Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 i am now starting to learn php .. i am currently doing a job as a web developer as ASP/HTML/CSS programmer ... but now i wanna learn PHP as well ... i just wanna know which version of PHP i should learn ... PHP 4 or PHP 5??? and why?? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/53700-php-4-or-php-5/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonMariner Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 5 - its OOP support is vastly superior to 4. 4 is probably a far more common installation but hopefully this will change in teh not too distant. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/53700-php-4-or-php-5/#findComment-265413 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Besides OOP, there isn't much difference between 4 and 5. I don't think 4 has exception handling and there are certain functions that do not exist in 4 but do in 5 (you could always look it up in the manual if you are in doubt). I'd probably go for PHP5, though you must just be aware that the majority of the web hosts are running PHP4. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/53700-php-4-or-php-5/#findComment-265414 Share on other sites More sharing options...
evulture Posted May 31, 2007 Author Share Posted May 31, 2007 thanks for such a quick reply ... today i bought A book "Wrox Beginning PHP5" http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-PHP5-Programmer-Dan-Squier/dp/0764557831/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-9451238-8058433?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180601999&sr=8-1 and Video tutorial "Lynda.com's Learn PHP" CD .... is there anything else that i should buy to learn because i wanna learn ore organized rather than searching for stuff???? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/53700-php-4-or-php-5/#findComment-265429 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Well, the manual is pretty good. Else there is the tutorial at PHP Freaks: http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials.php You mentioned being an ASP web developer. If you don't already know MySQL, then a book/tutorial on that would probably be good as well if the things you mentioned you've just bought don't already cover that. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/53700-php-4-or-php-5/#findComment-265434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
evulture Posted May 31, 2007 Author Share Posted May 31, 2007 the php.net manual is awesome ... can i get the Printable version of it in a single PDF or Word File? ??? .. because i really want it and i dont have DSL, but use Dialups Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/53700-php-4-or-php-5/#findComment-265444 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 You can download it as a CHM file or you can download all the either a single HTML file containing it all or all the HTML files packed together: http://www.php.net/download-docs.php Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/53700-php-4-or-php-5/#findComment-265448 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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