On Nov 14, 2007, at 11:53 AM, João Amaro Lagedo wrote:
I recently subscribed to php-general(2 months I think) and during this
time I saw some nice stuff, but most of the times (90% ?) It's always
the same thing.
PHP "Developers" that really have some kind of problem about reading
the Documentation.
This is not a rant, really! I'm an experienced developer and I have 5
years of php already, and I still learn new functions that I never
saw!
PHP has a extensive set of functions and objects that you can use to
solve almost anything, they are there, waiting for you,
and believe me, most of the times there's a function that will fit
perfectly for you.
Among these years I saw hundreds of lines of code, and came across
many different developers and quality of code, and some php developer
I worked think that knowing how to declare a function, a couple of
if's, prints and sql solved their problem and it was ok, but it is
NOT!
this one is a real life example of what can you end doing if you don't
READ THE MANUAL!
/* find the last day of the current month */
for ($i = 31; $i >= 28; $i--) {
if (checkdate(date('m'),$i,date('Y'))) {
$last_day = $i.date('/m/Y');
break;
}
}
ok... what about?
date('t/m/Y');
t = Number of days in the given month
this is just a short example in what you can end doing just because
you don't want to read the manual
think about the PHP online Documentation is great with great examples,
download the CHM or HTML to be accessible all the time
I hope it helps ;)
I couldn't agree more, but I did want to show another side of the
coin...
I like to think I'm a reasonably intelligent computer guy who likes
programming but doesn't know how to do it properly. (At least not yet.
I'm getting better :)) I have asked some pretty stupid questions on
this list as the archives do show :)
I search for what ever I can think of to fix my problems before
writing to the list to ask questions. But when you don't know don't
know the name of the function you are trying to find, or don't fully
understand why something isn't working as you think it should. It's
hard to get a web page to be able to think like a human and answer the
questions in away that makes sense since the examples obviously aren't
cutting it.
Little things like the difference between echo and print, or when do
you write something as a function? Or what is a function? :) All I'm
getting at is the people on this list have been a undeniable help for
me. If it wasn't for the people on this list who have put up with me,
I wouldn't have been able to get 2 fairly simple applications up and
running.
So I guess the point of this e-mail, is to say thanks to everyone who
has helped me. :)
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