Comments on: Installing PHP6 on Windows

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:02:27 +0000

Please see this post: http://www.larryullman.com/2010/05/25/the-death-of-php-6the-future-of-php-6/ There’s only a little bit on Ch 14 that requires PHP 6, and most of that can now be done using PHP 5.3 and the standard PHP library.

By: Harkaran Singh

Harkaran Singh — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:56:41 +0000

Where to download php 6

By: Harkaran Singh

Harkaran Singh — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:53:46 +0000

Sir , I am doing you book php 6 AND MY SQL 5. I am on ch 14 Universal Sites. But according to the installation , i have php 5. How do i upgrade it to php 6 so that i get full support for unicode

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:11:22 +0000

Yes, I’m sure that will be fine for non-production purposes.

By: AlikT

AlikT — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:06:46 +0000

Larry, thank you for the reply.
I visited AppServ — there is an alpha version of MySQL 6. Is it suitable for the “PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide” book?

By: Larry

Larry — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:49:02 +0000

Wow. Strange. Not sure what happened there but I assume it's only temporary. That's where you'd find the Windows version of PHP 6, when it's available (in beta format). In the interim, you could use AppServ. Sorry for the inconvenience!

By: AlikT

AlikT — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:08:30 +0000

Hello,
where PHP 6 can be found?
I visited http://windows.php.net/snapshots/ but there are no any downloads for version 6.

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:37:12 +0000

Thanks, Omar, for the input. I appreciate the perspective on this. Unicode is definitely the future of Web development and programming, and I did think it worth discussing in the book. Larry

By: Omar

Omar — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:14:46 +0000

I agree with Larry on tbar’s comment. Any technology book, or web book for that matter, prepares you for the next generation of software. It is not right to publish a book completely on PHP 6 as it has not yet been released. Though, as someone WHO HAS READ THE BOOK I’m glad Larry discussed the small percentage that he did on what’s to look forward to in the next PHP edition, like Unicode support for example.. which is one of the few issues I have with PHP 5.

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:58:39 +0000

Thanks for your comments, but I humbly disagree with pretty much everything you state. First, the book only requires PHP 6 for about 10% of the content, at most. Second, I was able to write about PHP 6 because even though it’s not (still) released, I did use the source code when I wrote the book. So the book was accurate with respect to PHP 6 as much as any book is accurate when it’s written. And, my assumption was that PHP 6 would be out in the near future, which I was clearly wrong about.

As for the specifics on namespaces, those ended up being added to PHP 5. And I don’t discuss those because I don’t discuss OOP in this book. My main focus in the book with respect to PHP 6 was Unicode.

So, with all due respect, I find your comments to be not “absolutely ridiculous”, but misinformed and misplaced. And if you’re out there trying to clear up my mistakes, then I do worry for those PHP newbies. For example, ‘namespace’ is one word.