Re: First PHP job

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On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Steve Staples <sstaples@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 16:21 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:02:51PM -0600, Donovan Brooke wrote:
> >
> > > Hello!, .. will try to keep this short!
> > > I've been a long time lurker but minimal poster. I made it a new years
> > > resolution to finally take on PHP jobs and now have my first one (with
> a
> > > completion date in a couple weeks!).
> > >
> > > I've been scripting in another language for many years and do know a
> > > thing or two.. but anticipate bothering the list a few times in the
> near
> > > future... hope that is fine with you all.
> > >
> > > I'm just about through Larry Ullman's "PHP" third edition that I
> started
> > > a couple days ago. Good book to start with I think, even for folks who
> > > have some kind of head start in Web Programming. I'm able to skim over
> > > a lot of it.
> > >
> > > I don't know how you all remain sane in dealing with quotes workarounds
> > > in echo/print statements, having to open/close PHP parsing using <?php
> > > ?> all the time, and having to deal with array's for just about
> > > everything... but I'm sure I'll get used to it and it will become
> second
> > > nature at some point. ;-)
> >
> > That stuff's easy. I'm still trying to wrap my wits around the crazy way
> > functions are handled in Javascript. I know of no other language which
> > treats functions the way Javascript does.
> >
> > Wait until you get to PHP's automatic casting of strings to numbers under
> > the proper conditions. You'll scratch your head for quite a while once
> > you hit that one.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > --
> > Paul M. Foster
> > http://noferblatz.com
> >
> >
> or the ($needle, $haystack) vs ($haystack, $needle)... i still get it
> screwed up... thankfully php.net/{function_name} is easy to use :P


php --rf <function name>

is also pretty handy.

-nathan

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