Get Ready for PHP 6

[realistic]

PHP 6, the next major revision of the popular Web application development language, looms on the horizon and promises many changes. Learn what’s new and what’s obsolete and how to prepare your code for tomorrow.

It’s no secret that PHP has changed significantly since the earliest versions of PHP 4 were released almost a decade ago. Indeed, each major revision of PHP has required code changes, as language features were added, modified, and obsolete. Depending on your PHP code, PHP 6 will be no exception.

Although PHP 6 isn’t yet available as a pre-built package, you can download and install a development snapshot of PHP 6 now to check out the new features and verify your scripts remain functional. Since PHP 6 removes some backwards-compatibility features (which, in the long term, is a good thing), you should test your existing code thoroughly.

[iimmdeepak]

thanks for the information bro i m going through PHP 5 is it ok to have learn it or wait for 6 to release .

[DaveSpencer]

May as well learn php 5 so you can get an idea of how scripting works, when php 6 comes out, then learn the new php functions and stuff.

I can't see everything in php 6 changing or I would have to change all my scripting on everything and that includes every site on the web nearly that uses php, unless they keep their servers with php 5.

[Jiberish]

It will take a looooong time before PHP6 is the standard among webhosts, so it's no problem in learning PHP now. The basics of programming will always be the same, regardless of version.

[craig.johnson84]

I agree with you. For now I will keep using PHP5. And I don't think that there will be any problems for anybody in switching from PHP5 to PHP6.

[jollyhosting.com]

Originally Posted by craig.johnson84

I agree with you. For now I will keep using PHP5. And I don't think that there will be any problems for anybody in switching from PHP5 to PHP6.

Well anything that connects to a database using the mysql_query functions will