RE: [PHP] tutorial ideas

>When I was in high-school years a go, they didn't teach me >how to solve individual algebra problems -- they taught me *algebra*. Well said Justin, this is the philosophy of my life. No matter how well you know the tree you're still new in the forest. A good tutorial has to be a site with articles that have some sequence, few codes to explain better what we are talking about and never go deeper then what was already written on php.net or these other never-saw-even-a-graphic text-made websites. these are perfect, but, people who reads them do not really need any help, they are professional programmers or crazy amateurs already:-)) Now here on internet EVERYONE (or almost) got a website, who is a little, just a little more interactive with visitors will always need to process at least one form, so, means, he/she will need a server-side pr. language. what's easier to start from Perl or PHP? Guess PHP... where will you get a better people to explain it to you, on perl or for php sites/lists? PHP. ... That kind of people needs some good, well written websites dedicated to PHP only.. I shouldn't even talk about it right now, it's like telling you my business plan (I am building a website called PHPBeginner.com, guess what it is about...) , but since php is an open-source and I very respect it I can reveal you few things... here... in list ... :-)) I would like somehow to cooperate with Bill Zeller, and with ALL OF YOU to help each-other bring more people to build database enabled and better quality websites. many many people are interested in PHP, some of them still consider it a hard thing to learn and some of them do not even try to learn it, so here I want to change the things, tell them that it's much simpler then they though Maxim Maletsky -----Original Message----- From: Justin French [mailto:justin@indent.com.au] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 10:04 AM To: Jeff Lacy Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] tutorial ideas Jeff Lacy wrote: > Please, no flames. Just my $0.025. Nup, no flames :) relax :) I guess what I was getting at is that tutorials and examples are both pretty thin. When I was in high-school years a go, they didn't teach me how to solve individual algebra problems -- they taught me *algebra*. Sure, there was examples, but they taught me how solve my own problems, not one specific problem. I could write a tutorial on validating a form... it might validate that a name has been entered, and that the email address *looks* like a valid address, and i might make sure they selected something from a pull down menue, whatever, but it's only teaching them how to validate *that* form. If I start further back, and teach them HOW TO VALIDATE ANY FORM, i can give them the tools to use for ever... they will still have to be creative, get deepo into regular expressions etc etc, but i believe a general tutorial on the topic is better than an example. yes, examples have helped me out 100's of times, but I'd love to learn rather than copy :) blah blah blah justin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net