Platforms and Versions

Platforms and Versions

This book targets PHP 5, but with the exception of about 10% of the material (the new object-oriented features in Chapters 2 and 22 and the SOAP coverage in Chapter 16), nothing in this book is PHP 5 specific. This book is about ideas and strategies to make your code faster, smarter, and better designed. Hopefully you can apply at least 50% of this book to improving code written in any language.

Everything in this book was written and tested on Linux and should run without alteration on Solaris, OS X, FreeBSD, or any other Unix clone. Most of the scripts should run with minimal modifications in Windows, although some of the utilities used (notably the pcntl utilities covered in Chapter 5) may not be completely portable.