When will ver 5.0 be released?

[darwin101]

Hello all;

Does anyone know when ver 5 will be released? I wanted to purchase a couple of books, but don't want to get ver4 books if a new version is coming out soon.

Thanks

 

[jimoblak]

Supposing version 5 comes out tomorrow, it will be months before printed material relating to the final release will be available. PHP, for the most part, is built upon previous versions. You will do no wrong by purchasing a 4.x book now.

PHP.net and zend.com detail development of beta/candidate releases.

 

[sleipnir214]

darwin101:

According to this article:

http://www.theopenenterprise.com/story/TOE20021204S0001/1

, PHP 5.0 will be out in beta in March 2003 and in release Summer 2003.

PHP 5.0 will mostly consist of improvements to PHP 4.0's object-oriented capabilities. It will add to 4.0 the features of private object members, destructors, and event handling. It will improve constructors and may add multiple inheritance.

I would go ahead and buy a PHP 4.0 book now and learn the improvements to the language with the time comes. You'll have enough to keep you busy in the mean time.

If you want to learn more about PHP 5.0, Zeev Suraski, one of the co-developers of PHP, is giving an online seminar on January 8, 2003 about Zend Engine 2.0 (the core of PHP 5). See here:

http://zend.interwise.com:80/zend/iSeminar/OI1336/

for more details on how to participate in the seminar. Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

TANSTAAFL!

 

[darwin101]

thanks