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jonathant
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php newbie forum

Post by jonathant »

A forum for php and programming newbies like myself would be great. Alot of times, I will post a code question and just the process of writing it out my question and the code will help me understand what I'm doing better. But, I hate to post beginners questions about easy code because I don't want to get comments like "it'd help if you read the manual." Also, I'm sure all you experienced php veterans get annoyed at seeing such basic, easy questions in the code forum. Having a newbie forum would give us wannabe programmers a place to figure stuff out. Maybe because this is the "developer's" network, a newbie forum wouldn't be appropriate, but I thought I'd suggest it anyways.
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I'm never annoyed with basic questions. I think the point of this forum is to help people. You'd be surprised, even old hats can learn from a noobie question.
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If we all got annoyed by newbie level questions, we'd be Sitepoint. We are most definitely not Sitepoint, and probably will never be like them. I know of many people that will jump ship if it does, myself included. To that end, we welcome newbie questions, but we do ask you to try performing some research on your own first by searching the forum. You may need to generalize your search terms and the search engine built into phpBB isn't as intelligent as Google's. We also ask you to be patient with your threads, as many of us are here on a voluntary basis helping others in our spare time.
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Post by hawleyjr »

feyd wrote:If we all got annoyed by newbie level questions, we'd be Sitepoint.
lmao :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Post by m3mn0n »

heh

Yeah, I think ya guys summed it up nicely. But to add to it, "PHP - Code" is our forum for what you're talking about.
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Post by shiznatix »

i may be posting too late but...

i learn things from newbie questions a lot and i really dislike the idea of segregation between skill levels. a php coder is a coder, no matter what skill level, and we all want to learn more and help more.

i have seen almost every admin here say 'wow, i never knew' for a complete newbie question and answer. dont fix what is not broken.

well thats my cents.

ps. was this not already suggested before? not trying to say double post but i think it was...
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Post by swiftouch »

It's never as easy as "just building a newbie forum." The problem with that is classifying posts into noob posts. Always the best way is the google the problem or search for it here on the boards. I find the hardest part about fixing a problem is actually finding an example I understand, and in order to do that you have to be proficient at googling. Sometimes I'll spend a lot of time refining my search for before I actually get to the right phrase. Knowing how to google is very helpful and using the advanced search can save a lot of time.
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Post by feyd »

18 month old thread. ;)
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neophyte wrote:I'm never annoyed with basic questions. I think the point of this forum is to help people. You'd be surprised, even old hats can learn from a noobie question.
I just learned one today involving array value concatenation in SQL queries. Superdesignz showed me it. :)
Set Search Time - A google chrome extension. When you search only results from the past year (or set time period) are displayed. Helps tremendously when using new technologies to avoid outdated results.
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