It's mostly backward compatible. A few function changes/additions. OOP has introduced a lot of new features but the PHP4 stuff should basically still work. Going from 4 to 5 should be easy enough, but if you've learned loads of PHP5 specific things you may find it confusing to drop down to PHP4. Th...
never used preg_match but with "ereg" i`d use something as simple as ereg('From:.*<(.*)>',$theString,$match) $match[1] would then contain "mrname@domain.com.au" this doesn`t check for the valididty of the email address, it just extracts everything from between "<" and &...
only thing i can think to say about wamp5 is that its for php5, not all web hosts are supporting this yet so make sure to check what your configuration is on the webserver your going to be using. PHP5 is quite a bit different from php4 but i`ve never looked at php5 so don`t uote me on any of this! S...
I would deffinately recommend unistalling all existing services this includes apache and mysql before installing XAMPP, XAMPP has been great for me but better to install from fresh with no existing components
<script language="php"> include("../menus/footer.php");</script> this is the last line of the code i saw when i looked at the link you posted, i`ve never had this style of coding work and not sure if that would work on anything other than an ms server? (i have no idea really!!!)...