Re: switch case madness

. >> >>    I do see from where it is you're coming, though, Josh --- once >> you've gotten the fundamentals, a lot of times it's easier - sometimes >> even a better idea - to use an existing, mature solution.  What helps >> you to determine its value from a code standpoint?  Your existing >> experience. >> >> -- >> </Daniel P. Brown> >> Network Infrastructure Manager >> Documentation, Webmaster Teams >> http://www.php.net/ > > You are correct, and it is a shame to see many developers fall into the copy / paste realm, > especially with a language like PHP where such snippets are often found easily but of dubious > quality. Rolling your own is a great way to understand how things work (or should work) internally, > as well as giving you valuable practice. I don't mean to discredit is. As I mentioned, more > often then not I'm a fan of it. > > Regards, > > -Josh > ____________________________________ > Joshua Kehn | Josh.Kehn@gmail.com > http://joshuakehn.com > > I find that at first, in any language, playing with the snippets through a form of stimuli and response(I move this, this happens, or doesn;t), helps to reinforce what I'm learning. But after understanding the snippet, I don't find that reapplying it later subverts the concept of being a 'real coder', because in the end you want to move to a more efficient means of coding, which is, if I'm not mistaken, where these larger frameworks come from-snippets that are reusable(all the way down to a login system snippet). -- It sure does get lonely up under this bridge.