the one thing PHP has over other languages
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I am not a fan of the MSDN documentation as it is not easy to find just what you need. When you do a search you get back 30k results and unless you are a pro and knowing what keywords to search it can be duanting at times.
And though I use the PHP site mostly for my syntax questions, the hard part are those questions that go beyond syntax and that is where forums like this really come into play. You can't go to php.net and explain what you are building then ask what would be the best pattern for that situation.
And though I use the PHP site mostly for my syntax questions, the hard part are those questions that go beyond syntax and that is where forums like this really come into play. You can't go to php.net and explain what you are building then ask what would be the best pattern for that situation.
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i learned rather quickly as did all of the people in my school. perhaps it's your inability to do effective searches or you don't actually know what you're searching for...? the more you know the easier it'll be. i use the MSDN for basic C/C++ questions as well. even if i'm developing on a completely different platformalvinphp wrote:I am not a fan of the MSDN documentation as it is not easy to find just what you need. When you do a search you get back 30k results and unless you are a pro and knowing what keywords to search it can be duanting at times
Sometimes I don't know what I am searching for so I take a stab using words to best describe what I want and many times the I get tens of thousands of results back. If I am looking for a specific function then that is a no brainer to find.MrPotatoes wrote:perhaps it's your inability to do effective searches or you don't actually know what you're searching for...? the more you know the easier it'll be.
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I tried using the MSDN docs once. Nearly puked. Gave up on it and learned from a book.
As for PHP, the PHP manual is open on my system almost as soon as I open a browser. The user comments rock, the (somewhat) clearly presented examples rock, and the development community, as a whole, rocks. I have never gotten answers to ASP related questions on a forum like I have here. In fact, I think I have gotten better ASP answers here than I have at those forums
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As for PHP, the PHP manual is open on my system almost as soon as I open a browser. The user comments rock, the (somewhat) clearly presented examples rock, and the development community, as a whole, rocks. I have never gotten answers to ASP related questions on a forum like I have here. In fact, I think I have gotten better ASP answers here than I have at those forums
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