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
