Re: New to PHP question

Paul M Foster wrote:

See? This is what I'm talking about. *I* understand what you're saying, Don, and I agree. But this guy is just learning PHP from what is arguably not one of the best books on PHP (IMO). And you're throwing MVC at him. Let him master the subtleties of the language first, then we'll give him the MVC speech. Yes, I know, they should learn proper programming practices from the beginning, blah blah blah. But think back to the first programming language you ever learned, when you were first learning it. If someone had thrown stuff like this at you, would you have had a clue? I had enough trouble just learning the proper syntax and library routines for Dartmouth BASIC and Pascal, without having to deal with a lot of "metaprogramming" stuff. This is the problem when you get newbies asking questions on a list whose membership includes hardcore gurus. The gurus look at things in such a lofty way that answering simple questions at the level of a beginner sounds like a dissertation on the subtleties of Spanish art in the 1500s. Just my opinion. Paul On that note, what would be a better book to learn from? I have always been a fan of the O'Reilly books, but I am open to differing flavors of kool-aid. One can never have too many resources.