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

2009-08-07 Thread Lester Caine
Tony Marston wrote: Don't be so pedantic. PHP 6 does not exist in a live, production-ready version. It is still under development and has not even reached the beta stage. Anyone who writes a book which documents the features of PHP 6 is being very premature as those features may change at any m

RE: [PHP] "PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites" Book

2009-08-06 Thread HallMarc Websites
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Re: [PHP] "PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites" Book

2009-08-06 Thread Michael A. Peters
Angus Mann wrote: Hi all. I monitor this list and occasionally contribute as an amateur so please forgive a question that might seem terribly obvious to those in the know. I'm confused about all this PHP 6 talk. Until now I thought I was right up there, because I worked with PHP 5.29 and was rea

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

2009-08-06 Thread Angus Mann
Hi all. I monitor this list and occasionally contribute as an amateur so please forgive a question that might seem terribly obvious to those in the know. I'm confused about all this PHP 6 talk. Until now I thought I was right up there, because I worked with PHP 5.29 and was ready to upgrade to 5.

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

2009-08-06 Thread Michael A. Peters
Eddie Drapkin wrote: Does no one see the inherent issues in buying a book about a not-feature-complete version of the language? Technically no version of php is feature complete until the next major release. php 5.2.10 has stuff 5.2.5 didn't, 5.3.0 has stuff 5.2.x didn't, etc. But yeah

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

2009-08-06 Thread Martin Scotta
You all are speaking about the same... But there is a good point you all are missing... It has non sense to read a book about php6... but what about to sell a php6 book? Hey! we are up to today! All the php5 book's are outdated. That's probably what editors thought when they decide to edit that bo

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

2009-08-06 Thread Eddie Drapkin
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 20:16 +0100, Tony Marston wrote: >> Don't be so pedantic. PHP 6 does not exist in a live, production-ready >> version. It is still under development and has not even reached the beta >> stage. Anyone who writes a book w

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

2009-08-06 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 20:16 +0100, Tony Marston wrote: > Don't be so pedantic. PHP 6 does not exist in a live, production-ready > version. It is still under development and has not even reached the beta > stage. Anyone who writes a book which documents the features of PHP 6 is > being very prema

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

2009-08-06 Thread Tony Marston
Don't be so pedantic. PHP 6 does not exist in a live, production-ready version. It is still under development and has not even reached the beta stage. Anyone who writes a book which documents the features of PHP 6 is being very premature as those features may change at any moment. The features

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

2009-08-06 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 17:24 +0100, Tony Marston wrote: > PHP 6 does not exist yet, Funny, that's not what the PHP site says: http://snaps.php.net/ Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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

2009-08-06 Thread Martin Scotta
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Eddie Drapkin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Tony > Marston wrote: > > > > "Eddie Drapkin" wrote in message > > news:68de37340908060841x129a9096w6c0907f85614c...@mail.gmail.com... > > > >> > >> Does no one see the inherent issues in buying a book about

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

2009-08-06 Thread Eddie Drapkin
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Tony Marston wrote: > > "Eddie Drapkin" wrote in message > news:68de37340908060841x129a9096w6c0907f85614c...@mail.gmail.com... > >> >> Does no one see the inherent issues in buying a book about a >> not-feature-complete version of the language? > > PHP 6 does not

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

2009-08-06 Thread Tony Marston
"Eddie Drapkin" wrote in message news:68de37340908060841x129a9096w6c0907f85614c...@mail.gmail.com... > > Does no one see the inherent issues in buying a book about a > not-feature-complete version of the language? PHP 6 does not exist yet, and no hosting companies provide it as an option, so

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

2009-08-06 Thread Ralph Deffke
because this is to start with the baby figuring out about a family :-) ralph_def...@yahoo.de "Eddie Drapkin" wrote in message news:68de37340908060841x129a9096w6c0907f85614c...@mail.gmail.com... On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:32 AM, tedd wrote: > At 5:34 PM -0700 8/5/09, sono...@fannullone.us wrote: >

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

2009-08-06 Thread tedd
At 11:41 AM -0400 8/6/09, Eddie Drapkin wrote: Does no one see the inherent issues in buying a book about a not-feature-complete version of the language? They are cheaper. Plus, if you're trying to learn the basics, old books have some value. They are not totally worthless. I often reference

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

2009-08-06 Thread Eddie Drapkin
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:32 AM, tedd wrote: > At 5:34 PM -0700 8/5/09, sono...@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 littl

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

2009-08-06 Thread tedd
At 5:34 PM -0700 8/5/09, sono...@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 wo

RE: [PHP] "PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites" Book

2009-08-06 Thread Bob McConnell
From: sono...@fannullone.us > 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 re

[PHP] "PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites" Book

2009-08-05 Thread sono-io
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? I know that no bo