[Dar es Salaam, Tanzania]
THIS is old news (forgot this post in my drafts folder) but I think it’s worth mentioning here in 2007. Hopefully, more web developers will start coding PHP5 specific web apps instead of playing it safe with the well-tested PHP4.x lineage. What annoys me, though, is that most web hosting companies are also playing it safe and fail to install PHP5 on their web servers. This keeps developers from taking advantange of its new features.

Get cracking
If you want to start cranking out some PHP5 code, but are unfamiliar with the new OOP features/syntax, etc., then I suggest you download the book (PHP 5 Power Programming) I don’t think you’re going to find a better learning resource since the authors of the book are gods in the PHP world. Here’s the link. It’s in PDF format. Oh, did I mention it’s FREE?