Linked by Adam S on Fri 6th Oct 2006 18:32 UTC
There's an interesting challenge in writing a good book about programming. At a certain point, you'll lose the newbies and alienate the technical. Below the line is a safe introductory book, above it is aimed at a smaller crowd. We had an opportunity review No Starch Press' Object-Oriented PHP, and found it fits nicely into the gap. 
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RE: Ummm. Guys.... PHP 5 anyone?
by Joe User on Sat 7th Oct 2006 17:03
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Member since:2005-06-29
> If people want OO, they won't use PHP
You're crazy. OOP with PHP5 and MVC is the way to go, very clean and structured programming that is easily maintainable. What else do you want to use beside PHP? Maybe mod_python, but that's it. Definately not JSP! (although it's 100% OOP)
RE[2]: Ummm. Guys.... PHP 5 anyone?
by Dolphin on Sat 7th Oct 2006 19:18
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Member since:2006-05-01
Yeah, *I* agree with you. But that's besides the point.
If the OOP guys want to use PHP, that's great.
But the fact remains, PHP's OOP-direction for v6 and beyond *is* undeniably scaring away many people.
This isn't me talking, it's the numbers. Ask the PHP devs. I use PHP for OOP and you do too... But that scares the living shit out of a lot of others. OOP isn't hard, it's just perceived as being such by the n00bs and script-boys...
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2006-05-01
According to PHP itself (the devs of course, not the language), the reason PHP 5 isn't as popular as earlier versions with few upgrades is because it tries to go from a loose and very ill-structured language to something that more closely resembles traditional compiled programming languages.
PHP 6 will be almost fully OO, and as such, taken up by even less people.
If people want OO, they won't use PHP. If they want something fast and powerful that gets the job done with minimum fuss they use PHP (no, not RUBY).
Just my two cents.