Why Learn PHP5?
We assume if you are reading this article that you have been convinced to learn PHP. Perhaps you are new to PHP or perhaps you are already experienced with PHP4. Now the question is why should you do PHP5? After all, PHP4 is quite good. Yes, but depending on what you are doing PHP5 can be better, much better. Just a simple reminder, we feel that most people who are new to programming should start with PHP4. Most people learn to walk before they learn to skate. But many great hockey players learned to ice skate before they learned to walk. Object-oriented programming is the way to go when you want to develop sophisticated applications. Many purists say that people serious about programming should start with object-oriented programming right from the beginning. Don’t get me wrong. PHP4 provides many aspects of object-oriented programming. But it is missing many other aspects. The following is a partial list of functionality missing in PHP4 but available in PHP5. (This is not the place to
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