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#1 2006-08-09 13:20:44
- Ace of Dubs
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PHP Forum?
I think it would be very useful, especially for us budding plugin devs who need to troubleshoot the code.
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#2 2006-08-09 14:13:46
- alexandra
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Re: PHP Forum?
Ace, there is a mailinglist for plugin devs. Wouldn´t that be more approbiate than a forum section?
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#3 2006-08-09 15:16:55
- Mary
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Re: PHP Forum?
That and/or the irc channel – remember guys, we’ve got our own chat room.
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#4 2006-08-09 16:04:10
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Re: PHP Forum?
I hear you guys, but:
- I have problems getting IRC to work on my network
- I checked out that thread and a lot of people are complaining that nobody is ever logged in
- It would be cool to have a PHP Learning Center here.. we have a lot of great minds and I think it would encourage more development in this community.
Thats JMHO of course
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Re: PHP Forum?
On other support forums that I frequent or help moderate, the same request has come up many times.
Eventually a PHP specific forum is put into place and what happens is that it’s full of questions but no specific answers from those in the know. So having a PHP forum in any Open Source project does not equate to help from the developers because often times they are busy coding, answering support questions and don’t have the time to teach the nuances of PHP to newbies.
PHP is but one aspect of Textpattern, knowledge of HTML, CSS and SQL is also needed. Not to mention knowing your hosting environment, like Linux (Bash and Cron jobs) and Apache (mod_rewrite, etc).
Much of what I’ve learned of all the above technologies I’ve gleaned from forums, no one forum will teach you all, you have to follow many of them and learn to pick out the nuggets of information from them. It’s not easy and for a beginner it may seem daunting but eventually things start to click and you can one day turn around and teach yourself.
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#6 2006-08-09 16:49:36
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Re: PHP Forum?
Fair nuff..
Where do you go with PHP questions then?
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Re: PHP Forum?
Ace of Dubs wrote:
Where do you go with PHP questions then?
The PHP manual has a lot of helpful info, the Windows CHM is nice as is the ever evolving Extended version.
http://www.php.net/download-docs.php
Dig in and when you have a question, Google for it, 9 times out of 10 you’ll find that someone else has hit that wall before you.
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#8 2006-08-10 13:57:32
- Mary
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Re: PHP Forum?
There are PHP-specific forums out there, like at SitePoint or PHP Freaks.
Personally, I’d say learn PHP first – just asking questions on “how to…” won’t get your far in actually knowing what the hell you’re doing. :) Google for “PHP tutorial”. You’ll get more than enough.
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#9 2006-08-10 17:19:11
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Re: PHP Forum?
I have been putting myself through various online PHP tutorials and php.net has is always my first stop when I hit a wall.
Still, I remember when I was struggling with CSS I gleaned a lot of useful info off the net, but my skills didnt solidify until I bought a few books and absorbed lots of well-presented knowledge.
I am going to buy a few of the books that Zem recommended…its probably the best way.
Cheers all
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