Re: Newbie question to everybody....PHP

Hi! 1. I believe every serious programmer out there uses arrays on a regular basis... 1.1. ...exactly because there are so many problems virtually unsolvable without them. Take for instance the case of a product page where people would fill in ordering quantitites. My recommendation would be not to study arrays, but rather try solving problems using them - that way you'll have a better chance to remember what you've learned. But then again, that's me - maybe you learn better in other ways. If you want to sleep, you can use sleep($seconds). But why in God's name would you want to do that? Bogdan r wrote:

Greetings people, Special greetings to all of you who have helped me in the past. As most of you know i am a newbie, I learned a bit of PHP via webmonkey and a few other places, seeing the power of PHP i decided to convert from Java servlets and JSP (JSP coz its expensive to host and not many hosting opportunities) so I baught a book called "The PHP black book". Anyway, now that the background is done heres my questions: 1)How many of you have seriously dug into arrays and has it been important in your programming? 1.1)Do you think you could have done the same thing you did with arrays WITHOUT arrays? (The reason i ask this is theres a whole chapter dedicated to arrays in the book & its pretty frustrating) Last question: Is ther any function to make the program "sleep" for 10 seconds or so? or does anybody have a function that does this? ANY replies.... good,bad,flames will be welcome. Cheers, -Ryan. /* You cannot get to the top by sitting on your bottom. */