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187skillz wrote:wow interesting, considering that i joined in 2003, I drifted away from the internet and now back..I'll hang around, seems this is the best forum for php/mysql...I hope I'm right.
I've found that the quality of responses people get improves the longer they've been around. I think this is due to the way users ask their questions .. the longer they're here the more likely they are to ask something in a way that gives enough information to answer.
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Hockey wrote: For PHP related stuff...this is indeed the best place I have found thus far...

When what your after is a quick repsonse anyways...
Quite re-assuring, and hockey you're credential is crazy!! you started at 8, your father must have been a programmer of some sort.
onion2k wrote:
187skillz wrote:wow interesting, considering that i joined in 2003, I drifted away from the internet and now back..I'll hang around, seems this is the best forum for php/mysql...I hope I'm right.
I've found that the quality of responses people get improves the longer they've been around. I think this is due to the way users ask their questions .. the longer they're here the more likely they are to ask something in a way that gives enough information to answer.
I dig this, it's hard sometimes to explain what you're asking but the more technical you get, the easier is gonna be to explain what it is you're asking.
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feyd wrote:although you will likely think I'm lying, I joined knowing little to nothing about php other than it was a server-side scripting language. :)

Same here... but back at the old site that Jason had.
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Post by foobar »

When I joined, a whole 2 months ago, I had about 1-1.5 years of php coding under my belt. That includes learning it, but the basics were pretty easy since I had coded in Perl before that.
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Post by alex.barylski »

187skillz wrote:
Hockey wrote: For PHP related stuff...this is indeed the best place I have found thus far...

When what your after is a quick repsonse anyways...
Quite re-assuring, and hockey you're credential is crazy!! you started at 8, your father must have been a programmer of some sort.
onion2k wrote:
187skillz wrote:wow interesting, considering that i joined in 2003, I drifted away from the internet and now back..I'll hang around, seems this is the best forum for php/mysql...I hope I'm right.
I've found that the quality of responses people get improves the longer they've been around. I think this is due to the way users ask their questions .. the longer they're here the more likely they are to ask something in a way that gives enough information to answer.
I dig this, it's hard sometimes to explain what you're asking but the more technical you get, the easier is gonna be to explain what it is you're asking.
My old man was and still is an AME for Air Canada...and no...no one fostered my obvious interest in computers until I was about 14 or so when I showed my dad an application in VB I wrote which decompiled MS Flight Simulators native BGL (scenery/navaid) files and generated a scrolling 2D display of runways, navaids, etc under a real world long/lat grid...I later implemented a trivial auto flight planner to calculate optimum routes from destination to arrival....

Until I showed my dad that...he never let me touch the computer, except for school...like using word...I had to install flight sim and programming stuff on the computer and hide it from him....which was pretty easy, but still...

My original intent in life...was to become a fighter pilot and in my 30's move over to Air Canada...or atleast this is the dream my old man had set out for me...

I was even in Air Cadets...came damn close to getting my privates...but was beat out by a senior cadet with his gliders...my first hard lesson in...it's not always "what you know, but who you know" cuz I'm pretty sure I beat him academically...

Alas...it was not to be...I later dropped out of school in gr. 10 :( and took a stab at software development...convinced my parents I would make it that way....

10 years later and I still haven't made any successful products, I mean they all worked...some better than others, but I have always lacked business skills nessecary to form partnerships or sell my software...hence the unsuccessful bit...

Yup those 10 years I spent alot of time reading and studying and programming...probably 14-16 hours/day (not including lunch, breaks, etc) 6/7 days/week programming or reading/studying...I really have no life...but you can't miss what you never had I guess :(

At this very moment I'm still working towards that goal of success :)

Apologies for the rant...it's just one of those days 8)

Cheers :)
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: gives hockey a hug: sorry bud but you were screaming for one
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Well i only knew html when i started on the forum. I knew how to use dreamweaver to make "templates" but became discouraged with the entire thing when i had to upload every page again when i made a change... man that seems like ages ago. Needless to say when i learned a little of the server side idea i decided to learn php. Man was that ever an awesome choice.

I started to learn php the summer after high school and programmed for a year with php before taking a two year brake from computers. Started up again about six months ago but haven't had the time to do very much php... :( That makes me sad but on the other hand i have a job using coldfusion... which i only got because of what i learned doing php... ;) Coldfusion was easy to pick up but i still love using php and would choose it over coldfusion any day. Started into css majorly about five months ago and man does the php/mysql/css package make an awesome combo!
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onion2k wrote:
187skillz wrote:wow interesting, considering that i joined in 2003, I drifted away from the internet and now back..I'll hang around, seems this is the best forum for php/mysql...I hope I'm right.
I've found that the quality of responses people get improves the longer they've been around. I think this is due to the way users ask their questions .. the longer they're here the more likely they are to ask something in a way that gives enough information to answer.
I agree.

I've noticed that also.
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Post by DeprecatedDiva »

I joining on August 3 of this year. Although I don't ask a lot of questions, I read..... a lot! When I couldn't find an answer to the one or two questions that I desperately wanted to know, PHPDN is the place I turned to learn.

Learning PHP is becoming easier with each passing day and I am able to spot missing parens & brackets & semicols, with an occasionally misspelled function name thrown in for excitement, very quickly.

Once I finish the hardbound resources I'm currently scribbling all over, I have no doubt that this will be my home away from home for continuing development.

I would like to thank feyd for being so very patient with me in my first few days. I may be slow in starting but what I'm learning is sticking. Above all thank you to every contributor here as you ease my journey learning this beautifully versatile & easy-to-learn script. :D

edited to add: did I say easy to learn? :wink:
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