PHP 6 was primarily going to be Unicode (as you mentioned), but there was no problem about having other features in as well. While this was in development, some people started writing PHP 6 books. These books were published. When we finally gave up on including native Unicode support, we ended up stripping out the Unicode stuff and keeping everything else. It wasn't "major version" worth, so it was just 5.3 When we did the engine rewrite later on, this was worth a new major version number. Ideally that would have been 6, but the presence of thise books and articles about Unicode PHP 6 would have been a source of confusion. Meanwhile numbers are free, so we'll call it 7. That's all. So that optimistic books didn't cause problems.
Thank you for the reply, Sara! I’d absolutely love to have you on the channel to chat about some early PHP stories! Super chill and informal-no prep needed, just fun! If you’re up for it, what’s the best way to reach you?
The story I heard was that there was so many new features from PHP 5.x to the next one is that they skipped the version 6.x and used 7.x. Implying the huge changes and new features in PHP.
PHP 6 was primarily going to be Unicode (as you mentioned), but there was no problem about having other features in as well.
While this was in development, some people started writing PHP 6 books. These books were published.
When we finally gave up on including native Unicode support, we ended up stripping out the Unicode stuff and keeping everything else. It wasn't "major version" worth, so it was just 5.3
When we did the engine rewrite later on, this was worth a new major version number. Ideally that would have been 6, but the presence of thise books and articles about Unicode PHP 6 would have been a source of confusion. Meanwhile numbers are free, so we'll call it 7.
That's all. So that optimistic books didn't cause problems.
Thank you for the reply, Sara! I’d absolutely love to have you on the channel to chat about some early PHP stories! Super chill and informal-no prep needed, just fun! If you’re up for it, what’s the best way to reach you?
The story I heard was that there was so many new features from PHP 5.x to the next one is that they skipped the version 6.x and used 7.x. Implying the huge changes and new features in PHP.
Very close but you missed a couple of interesting (well to me) details. But you got the big points. (and yes, you need to have Sara on.) :)
Windows 9 also??
@@emedeirox Ahaha for real