Re: Re: "PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites" Book

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Lester Caine<lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > Eddie Drapkin wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:32 AM, tedd<tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> At 5:34 PM -0700 8/5/09, sono-io@fannullone.us wrote: >>>> >>>>       Has anyone read this book by Larry Ullman yet?  If so, what do you >>>> think about it?  I'm looking for a well-rounded book that covers PHP for >>>> e-commerce websites and from what little I've been able to find online, >>>> it >>>> looks pretty good.  Or would you recommend another book? > >> Does no one see the inherent issues in buying a book about a >> not-feature-complete version of the language? > > I suspect in 2007/8 Larry thought that PHP6 was actually going to be > released some time soon, rather than inventing a new roadblock with PHP5.3 - > which is what the book now needs re-writing to support? > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// > Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > The PHP6 books I've looked at in bookstores all make references (one even had a chapter dedicated) to the native Unicode support, without making too much reference on what is/isn't involved there. As far as the books on PHP6, some of them make reference to traits, which are thought to be included in PHP6 / 5.3, but weren't, and I've seen :: used in books as a namespace separator. I wouldn't buy a book for a version of the language that I wasn't already using, so I'd recommend getting an older 5.X book, or even a newer 5.3 book.