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Paperback: 327 pages
Publisher: Pragma; 1st ed edition (3 Aug 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0596006365
ISBN-13: 978-0596006365
Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm

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If you're using PHP 4, then chances are good that an upgrade to PHP 5 is in your future. The more you've heard about the exciting new features in PHP 5, the sooner that upgrade is probably going to be. Although an in-depth, soup-to-nuts reference guide to the language is good to have on hand, it's not the book an experienced PHP programmer needs to get started with the latest release. What you need is a lean and focused guide that answers your most pressing questions: what's new with the technology, what's different, and how do I make the best use of it? In other words, you need a copy of Upgrading to PHP 5. This new book is targeted toward PHP developers who are already familiar with PHP 4. Rather than serve as a definitive guide to the entire language, the book zeroes in on PHP 5's new features, and covers these features definitively. You'll find a concise appraisal of the differences between PHP 4 and PHP 5, a detailed look at what's new in this latest version, and you'll see how PHP 5 improves on PHP 4 code. See PHP 4 and PHP 5 code side-by-side, to learn how the new features make it easier to solve common PHP problems. Each new feature is shown in code, helping you understand why it's there, when to use it, and how it's better than PHP 4. Short, sample programs are included throughout the book. Topics covered in Upgrading to PHP 5 include: The new set of robust object-oriented programming features; An improved MySQL extension, supporting MySQL 4.1, prepared statements, and bound parameters; Completely rewritten support for XML: DOM, XSLT, SAX, and SimpleXML; Easy web services with SOAP; SQLite, an embedded database library bundled with PHP 5; Cleaner error handling with exceptions; Other new language features, such as iterators, streams, and more. Upgrading to PHP 5 won't make you wade through information you've covered before. Written by Adam Trachtenberg, coauthor of the popular PHP Cookbook, this book will take you straight into the heart of all that's new in PHP 5. By the time you've finished, you'll know PHP 5 in practice as well as in theory.

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This new book is targeted toward PHP developers who are already familiar with PHP 4. Upgrading to PHP 5 offers a concise appraisal of the differences between PHP 4 and PHP 5, a detailed look at what's new in this latest version, and an explanation of how these changes affect you. The book also covers more advanced features and provides hands-on experienced through short, sample programs included throughout.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A very comprehensive guide for the practiced, 10 Aug 2004

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Having used PHP4 to develop a couple of web sites, I decided that I would keep myself abreast of what is coming with the advent of PHP5. I had already purchased 'Learning PHP5' from the same publishers, in order to remind myself of the basics and also to see if the fundamentals were any different! This book augments this beautifully, going into the next level of detail from the aforementioned book. It covers a lot of the new PHP5 functionality, and illustrates PHP4 examples and their PHP5 counterparts very well. If you're just starting out, I'd definitely go for either 'Learning PHP5' or the 'PHP 5 and MySQL Bible'. If you're already fairly PHP savvy, then this book will prove highly useful! A great purchase.

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5.0 out of 5 stars No fluff guide to new features in PHP 5, 5 Jun 2007

By	Roger Lancefield (London, England.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was fortunate to start working with PHP after it moved to version 5. Although they are separate books, each with a very different style, I came to regard "Upgrading to PHP 5" as Part 2 of O'Reilly's two main PHP 5 instructional volumes (Part 1 being "Learning PHP 5" by David Sklar). "Upgrading to PHP 5" is fast-paced, wastes no space on elaborate or unnecessary narrative and provides short but helpful examples for each significant issue. It's a relatively small book and is less expansive than than the more detailed books in O'Reilly's "Programming" series, but it contains more detailed explanation and examples than is typically the case with the terse Nutshell books. (IMHO anyway). In particular I found the chapters on MySQLi (especially the sections on prepared statements, SQLite and error handling very useful. It's definitely for those serious about learning the "new" features in version 5 of the language. (scare-quotes around "new" because it's now June, 2007)

While "Upgrading to PHP 5" provides a good overview of the features unique to PHP 5, its text and examples will be too pithy for most starting out with object-oriented programming. For getting to grips with OOP using PHP 5, I wholeheartedly recommend "PHP 5 Objects, Patterns and Practice", a superb work by Matt Zandstra (Apress). Not only is it very well-written and contains a great discussion of general OOP principles, but there's also plenty of consideration of OOP application design specifically in relation to PHP's 'per-request' nature (i.e. PHP's eschewal of a persistent memory scope in which to 'cache' your OOP class definitions and object instances). That is, Zandstra's OOP is crafted mindful of the fact that (where 3rd party memory caching is not used) your OOP application design will need to run with each request and thus will need to avoid the kind of OO complexity you typically encounter in J2EE or even OO ColdFusion application designs.

To sum up, if you're new to PHP I recommend all three books. If you're already a black belt in PHP 4, then I suspect that the Trachtenberg and Zandstra books will be all you need to move to both PHP 5 and OOP. (Although I should probably warn that the Zandstra book may be a bit advanced for absolute OOP noobs...). Finally, if you can afford it, get the excellent second edition of the "PHP Cookbook" too! It'll probably save you many hours of rooting around on well-meaning but aesthetically challenging PHP-related bulletin boards.

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