Re: Learn PHP 4 or 5 ?
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:30:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Learn PHP 4 or 5 ? | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.webmaster |
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On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Francisco Gómez de la torre wrote:
> Hi, my name is Francisco. I have made a lot of websites in ASP Classic and
> other few in ASP.NET for 5 years. Now, I'm interested in programming in PHP
> 5 and use open-source tools , but I have no experience in PHP. Therefore,
> would you recommend to first learn PHP "classic" before learning PHP 5?
No. PHP 4 is outdated, insecure and not supported. PHP 5 is already 7
years old. It's also just a super set of PHP 4 and most "classic" apps
will work in PHP 5 just fine.
Derick
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