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Need help

Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 1:24 pm
by sujan
Hi friends i want to make website where i can sell paintings can any body suggest me for the proper php scripts

Re: Need help

Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 3:49 pm
by califdon
sujan wrote:Hi friends i want to make website where i can sell paintings can any body suggest me for the proper php scripts
Use Google. Search for php scripts.

Re: Need help

Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 5:21 pm
by JAB Creations
While DevNetwork isn't in the top ten on the big three for 'PHP' it's in the top ten of each of the big three for 'PHP forum'...so I wonder why people don't simply look up 'PHP tutorial'? Learning to search is important. It's not like most people are going to find limitations quickly even with search operators (quotes, minus, etc).

Re: Need help

Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:47 am
by Bill H
Learning to search is less obvious than you might think. What seems obvious to you is not obvious to others.

I am not really that good at searching. My wife, who needs for me to come reboot her damn computer because she doesn't know how, can find stuff on the Internet like some kind of magician. I look for something for an hour and give up, then ask her and she finds it in two minutes.

Re: Need help

Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 2:32 pm
by califdon
Bill H wrote:Learning to search is less obvious than you might think. What seems obvious to you is not obvious to others.

I am not really that good at searching. My wife, who needs for me to come reboot her damn computer because she doesn't know how, can find stuff on the Internet like some kind of magician. I look for something for an hour and give up, then ask her and she finds it in two minutes.
Bill, that's because she's so much smarter than you are! [I know Bill, so I think I can afford to razz him a little.]

Seriously, you're correct, but so was ~JAB Creations, when he said that learning to search is important. It's not surprising that your wife may be better at it than you, since success is related to language skills and women are often superior in that ability. (In some other areas, too, but I digress.) The trick in searching is to have a sense of how the search engines index resources. Here's a tutorial on search techniques: http://www.pimall.com/NAIS/n.engine.html. To which I would add that the order you enter your search terms is significant. In most search engines you will get different results when you enter search engine than when you enter engine search. The assumption is that your search terms are entered in order of their significance to the relevance of the returned references. That is, the first search, above, would place higher importance on the word search, so a search and rescue site might rank higher than in the second search, above, where the first term is engine, where a steam engine site might rank higher. Generally, the search engine will rank resources where all search terms are included, higher than resources where only some of the terms are included. I can usually find what I'm looking for, although it may take a couple of modifications of my search terms before the most relevant resources bubble up to the first page of results.