i am reading some magazine and its pretty old, and it said php 6 should be released by 2006 or the middle of 2007. so is it out yet?

funny thing is when i go to php.net in the title above i see
PHP 4.4.8 Released

so now im wondering where did php5 come from.

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No it has not been released yet as far as I know. The latest stable version is 5.2.5 and for OOP4, PHP 4.4.8 as been release a couple of months ago.

PHP 4 and PHP 5 are both complete different things. For example, PHP5 supports MySQLi and PHP 4 doesn't. PHP 4 uses class { function foobar() {} } and PHP 5 uses class { public function foobar() {} }.
There are a LOT more differences but you should find that out for yourself.

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In short, no PHP 6 isn't "out" yet; meaning that a stable, production-ready, version isn't offered for public consumption. The latest stable release can downloaded here, which is PHP 5.2.5 (the now discontinued PHP 4.4.8 is also available).

PHP 6 source code can be downloaded so that your server can run it, but the code is not considered stable yet. You can download up-to-date (updated every few hours) snapshots of the code from PHP Snapshots which includes the latest snapshots for PHP 5.2, 5.3 and 6.0. Alternatively you can grab the latest code of specific branches from CVS, see detailed instructions.

OLD is the keyword of that article you read, heh google would of easily answered that for you.

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You really have an eye of it. Kinda useless post as Salathe and I already answered. (yes, this post too)

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PHP 4.4.8 was released 1 month and 5 days ago lol

Last time I looked at the php6 todo list (link), there was alot of things before a full version would be released, so maybe expect a beta by this year and maybe a full one in 2009

6.0dev is already out, I have it installed on my computer.

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It'll be interesting to see if PHP6 has the same slow acceptance rate that PHP5 had.

I'm going to guess that it won't as the changes are less drastic. Looking at the major changes so far, most PHP5 scripts should run without problems on PHP6 which should ease a lot of upgrades.

Alan