I’ve just finished reading a PHP 5 book. It’s really changed my take on PHP. The last time I got dirty with serious PHP programming was back in version 3 and maybe a little of version 4. My view of PHP before reading this book was that it was a nice powerful language for quick dirty scripts but any large project would be completely unmaintainable. PHP 5 is a great advance and has squashed my previous conception of the language. I’ve always been a PHP fan but more recently have become a Ruby and Python convert. I’m not an expert at either by any means but I feel the power when I use the two languages. PHP 5 gives me that same feeling and has a familiar syntax already. It doesn’t have the mysticism and intrigue that Ruby and Python give me but I am confident that when the time comes for me to use PHP again I’ll be comfortable with the power it’s now capable of.

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