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PHP Advanced forum...

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 12:37 pm
by nigma
I would like to know how it is going in there, it seems to me that it (advanced forum) has just turned into another PHP Normal forum with exceptions?

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 1:17 pm
by nielsene
It has been dead of late. Personally I think its a failed experiement. I know many people were demanding it for a long time, and I know many people fought against it. I also know some people has been asking for a Newbee forum seperate from Normal.

Maybe if we had the "Report post/thread" to moderator feature to help them pinpoint threads to move, it would be better, but we'd also need more moderators etc.

Lately it just seems like people after getting a lack of responses in normal assume that their problem is advanced and post there instead. Some even decide to start posting there with simple register_global issues.

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 1:22 pm
by nigma
I never actually posted or responded to any messages in the Advanced forum because I don't consider myself advanced and also I just couldn't help with some of the posts ;)

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 3:40 pm
by JAM
Advanced is also perhaps difficult to define?
For some beginners, moving from '$var === $othervar' to 'fopen()' might be advanced, and for others it's the image/pdf area.

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 4:08 pm
by nigma
True, but I just mean that I have not meet my definition of advanced yet ;)

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 4:27 pm
by m3rajk
jam,. you're right, depending ont he background everyone will see it differently.


nigma, i agree with you, the problem is that if you come from a programming background anything syntactical is auptmatically not advaced.


yret others will feel that way. so far i've felt the majority of my issues are some variation of a syntax issue i haven't discovered yet.


most of the time i've been right

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 4:32 pm
by JAM
Do like me, pretend... :D

Seriously, as the average knowing user i am myself, I'm stunned by the competence of a handfull users here, and glad it's divided into two areas. I think it does more good than bad.

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 4:53 pm
by Drachlen
I think you're looking at the word 'advanced' the wrong way. Instead of saying it means harder coding, think of it as: "Less how-to and more theory, this forum is here for those of us who wish to learn about design aspects of programming with PHP."

I think the description of the forum says it perfectly. Not how tough the coding is, to seperate the easy and hard, but more as, "am I doing this the most effiecent way", and what not.

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 4:59 pm
by JAM
Well spoken...

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 7:52 pm
by McGruff
I really like the advanced forum. I always check that first.

Even if it goes dead for a few weeks here and there it should build into a great resource of advanced topics which would get lost in the traffic of a single board.

Could certainly do with some more posting discipline though.

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 11:16 pm
by Bill H
Perhaps rename it "PHP - Theoretical Discussion" would help?