simple examples on php

Hello webmasters, thanks for the informations on php.net which helps me a much. But I am not a very experinced php programmer, so sometimes I have problems to understand. Even why english is not my favourite language When I found some for me new functions, I look for the exemples to understand, but mostly these exemples are very specially with some specialities. So please for next updates. Please set as first a very simple exemple, which helps to understand the function and then, later more specific things. Think about beginners or non-professionels, who need this information. Thanks Horst Schulze