Varuna Posted July 15, 2011 Report Share Posted July 15, 2011 Sometime(about 2 years back) ago I inquired from php.net regarding a PHP6 version they said there is no such version and still there is no PHP 6 version.Why does this book is titled PHP 6 .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Swanson Posted July 15, 2011 Report Share Posted July 15, 2011 When Larry wrote the book, a release of PHP6 was planned, with the major feature being Unicode support. But it was taking so long to get Unicode support implemented, that a decision was made (after the book was released) to make the changes into a branch, rather than a full version. So this book's title has turned into Larry's "Dewey Defeats Truman" error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted July 15, 2011 Report Share Posted July 15, 2011 Paul, I LOVE that description. I need to manufacture a picture of me holding up PHP 6. Veruna, I've written about this in my blog (and on Amazon), but filling out what Paul wrote, PHP 6 was being developed when I wrote the book, so I used a development version of PHP 6 to write the book. To be fair, only about 5% of the book requires PHP 6. And, actually, I think all of that 5% can now be done with PHP 5.3, because, as Paul mentioned, many features intended for PHP 6 were folded into earlier versions. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted April 1 Report Share Posted April 1 Paul's answer is spot on, check here for some more info... https://www.updatephp.com/why-is-there-no-version-6-of-php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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