Re: Is there a PHP for Dummies?

There is a second edition of MySQL and PHP, the first edition was a very good book but was written before the super globals were introduced. I would recommend going on Amazon and bn.com and reading the reviews. There is a lot you can learn from the PHP Manual but if you are truly a beginner you would benefit from a good PHP book. O'reilly also has published a PHP book now as well. Jason Leif K-Brooks wrote:

I've seen some PHP books, and honestly, the only book I might buy would be a printed copy of the PHP manual. It's more in-depth than most books. Exactly what is your problem with it? Beauford.2002 wrote:

My comment was that they do not use manuals, they use books written by 3rd parties. Why? Because they are more detailed and go into more depth than the manual. Also keep in mind that different people have different learning curves - you may find the manual sufficient, however, I don't. Further note that schools only teach you the rudimentary base language - to really understand it is to look at other peoples code and write your own. B.

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Leif K-Brooks <mailto:eurleif@buyer-brokerage.com>
    To: Beauford.2002 <mailto:beauford.2002@rogers.com>
    Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 9:03 AM
    Subject: Re: [PHP] Is there a PHP for Dummies?

    Rule #1 im programming: what you learn in school is never right! :)

    Beauford.2002 wrote:

    I don't find manuals particularly usable and as such would rather
    have a good reference manual that speaks in plain english. I
    don't need to know the technical details - I need to know how it
    works, which I don't find manuals provide. I spent four years in
    college, and not once did they use the manual as the text of
    choice - simply because they are not meant to teach you how to
    use whatever it is your after.
         B.

        ----- Original Message -----
        From: Leif K-Brooks <mailto:eurleif@buyer-brokerage.com>
        To: Beauford.2002 <mailto:beauford.2002@rogers.com>
        Cc: PHP General <mailto:php-general@lists.php.net>
        Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 9:59 PM
        Subject: Re: [PHP] Is there a PHP for Dummies?

        I can find an answer to nearly any question I have about PHP
        in the manual.  Any examples of what you're unable to find?

        Beauford.2002 wrote:

I found that after the fact, but my question was regarding tutorials, books, or other docs. This was just an example I used. In general I don't find the PHP manual very helpful - I tend to get more out of the users comments than the actual manual.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leif K-Brooks" <eurleif@buyer-brokerage.com> To: "Beauford.2002" <beauford.2002@rogers.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 9:49 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Is there a PHP for Dummies?

After a quick search of the php manual, I came upon http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.info.php#ini.magic-quotes-gpc, which

says:

Sets the magic_quotes state for GPC (Get/Post/Cookie) operations. When magic_quotes are on, all ' (single-quote), " (double quote), \ (backslash) and NUL's are escaped with a backslash automatically. Seems to explain it pretty nicely. Beauford.2002 wrote:

No, the name explains absolutely squat. What is a magic quote? Sounds

like

something I smoked in the 60's. Maybe to you it makes sense as you know

what

it does. To me it means absolutely nothing - nor does the PHP manual

explain

it. B. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennifer Goodie" <goodie@apollointeractive.com> To: "Beauford.2002" <beauford.2002@rogers.com>; "PHP General" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 5:07 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Is there a PHP for Dummies?

    
That is a really, really, really poor example.  Tha name says it all.
      

It

gets the magic quotes setting for gpc(get, post, cookie). You can

figure

out what most PHP functions do just by looking at their names, that's actually what I like about PHP. -----Original Message----- From: Beauford.2002 [mailto:beauford.2002@rogers.com] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 1:54 PM To: PHP General Subject: [PHP] Is there a PHP for Dummies? 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. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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