Posted by PHPGB on 08/26/05 00:27

<comp.lang.php , Kenneth Downs , knode.wants.this@see.sigblock>
<rlm1u2-9r.ln1@pluto.downsfam.net>
<Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:36:34 -0400>

> > Your forgetting something , To somebody who has never seen php before or
> > has only really glanced snippets of php code - its like looking at a
> > foreign language .
>
> How many other languages have you coded? If the answer is none, you may
> want a basic primer on any language, something that explains basic things
> like variable scope, control structures, and so forth. After that, you
> just look at the PHP manual to find out how it does these things.
>
> If you have used other languages, what specifically is the problem in
> getting off the ground with PHP?
>

None here as i'm off the starting block .

But i'm new enough at it to remember what it was like to get started as
it was utter hell , Many people often forget that some people dont take
to this sort of stuff like a duck to water in the same way they do .

To them its effortless and painless - to some others its hell .

I found I only really started getting anywhere once I had built up a few
of my own code snippets that I could cut-n-paste into other pages .

The good part about writing the below script is i'm forced into learning
new commands if I want to do certain things .

Last night I started off learning how to check if a file or folder was
already created or not and ended up writing a install.php file to do
away with all the chmod stuff .

Either way i'm kicking myself for not making the effort years ago as php
whups html without even working up a sweat and makes life so much easier
..


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