Re: Is there a PHP for Dummies?

Try out "Programming PHP" by Rasmus Lerdorf from O'Reilly. I got it and learned everything from it. Once you've read the book once or twice, you can just use the PHP Manual... -Michael On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 12:53, Beauford.2002 wrote: > I'm really tired of trying to figure out the PHP manual and need something > that explains things in plain straight forward English. Like > get_magic_quotes_gpc() for example - the manual says how to use it and what > it returns - but nowhere can I find out what it's for. Does it count sheep, > do a quote of the day, or what - maybe I'm just stupid - but in any event I > have spent more time in the last two weeks searching for things and getting > no answers - Any help in pointing me a good straight forward tutorial/manual > would be appreciated. > > B.