RE: [PHP] Re: [NEWBIE GUIDE] For the benefit of new members

[snip] ...lots of really good stuff... [/snip] So, basically I saw 3 possible action items from this discussion... 1. phParrot development 2. Weekly CRON of NEWBIE GUIDE (once I get the e-mail portion figured out) 3. OT posts should contain a TIP or TRICK? If we did this we could harvest them once in a while for dissemination to the group. How you say? You could contain the tip in a tag, example... [tip type="query error checking" author="Jay Blanchard"] When issueing a query to the database I always find it healthy to do error checking in this form if(!($resultOfQuery = mysql_query($query, $databaseConnection))){ echo "This gave me an error " . mysql_error() . "\n"; exit(); } If an error is thrown the application exits immediately so that I can correct and move on. [/tip] As you can see, using some reasonable regex would get the tip out. Also, when phParrot is up and running a tip can be given with each reply if a databse of these tips was gathered. Someone then could gather all of the tips, publish a book and make us all famous. I may have had too much caffeine this AM -- looks like my enthusiasm level is set to 'HIGH'