Re: Re: limiting

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Tim Streater <tim@clothears.org.uk> wrote: > On 09 Oct 2012 at 20:46, Matijn Woudt <tijnema@gmail.com> wrote: > >> For example your previous post, you >> could have just looked up what the 'echo' and 'return' statements do >> in the PHP manual, and they are probably explained pretty OK in those >> books you own too. You probably could have answered the questions you >> posted here yourself, after reading PHP manual carefully. > > Here, the phrase "PHP manual" means: > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/ > > which I consider to be an excellent written resource for the language. In fact, I own no PHP > books at all (whereas I do for JavaScript/HTML/CSS/SQLite) so that must say something about the > quality of the on-line documentation. Further, it is written in a straightforward way, not trying to > be clever (unlike some languages I could mention), so I can recommend it. It's available in > languages other than English, too. > > -- > Cheers -- Tim > Thanks Tim! Should have mentioned the URL indeed. Don't forget that if you want to find the manual page for a function fast, try http://www.php.net/<function name> where <function name> is the name you're looking for, so for example for return, you could use http://www.php.net/return And there ya go, PHP manual page for return! - Matijn