new phpdn forum
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:06 pm
I've had this idea for quite a while now, but not necessarily for phpdn. I even started developing a web site for it and had a good domain name (phpthoughts.com if anyone wants to grab it before it's gone
), but I got sidetracked and don't really feel like finishing it.
Anyways, new forum - articles.
They're not tutorials, snippets, or pieces of codes. Instead they're "discussions" of best practices, address common issues with php programming, showing alternate ways of doing things, etc etc etc.
Some sample articles I was doing:
- Using proper PHP tags -- explaining why to use <?php instead of <% or <?
- what register_globals is and how to work with it
- same for magic_quotes_gpc()
- code portability
- mysql_num_rows() vs. count() in the query, for some examples
- avoiding easy bottlenecks
- the so-called death of php4
The topics are just so limitless and could go from very beginner to very advanced. For example a while back I asked a question about referral systems, and I was referred to an article on sitepoint about this. It discussed linear table data and hiarchial table data using the modified preorder tree traversal algorhythm. We could have that HERE, and so many more.
And instead of linking to topics when users ask beat-up questions like headers already sent, we could link them to a phpdn article explaining it, rather than a topic full of posts when really one post is what they're looking for.
Plus given the tremendous amount of subjects to write about, it couldn't hurt devnet's search engine rankings.
What do you guys think? That's my $0.02
Anyways, new forum - articles.
They're not tutorials, snippets, or pieces of codes. Instead they're "discussions" of best practices, address common issues with php programming, showing alternate ways of doing things, etc etc etc.
Some sample articles I was doing:
- Using proper PHP tags -- explaining why to use <?php instead of <% or <?
- what register_globals is and how to work with it
- same for magic_quotes_gpc()
- code portability
- mysql_num_rows() vs. count() in the query, for some examples
- avoiding easy bottlenecks
- the so-called death of php4
The topics are just so limitless and could go from very beginner to very advanced. For example a while back I asked a question about referral systems, and I was referred to an article on sitepoint about this. It discussed linear table data and hiarchial table data using the modified preorder tree traversal algorhythm. We could have that HERE, and so many more.
And instead of linking to topics when users ask beat-up questions like headers already sent, we could link them to a phpdn article explaining it, rather than a topic full of posts when really one post is what they're looking for.
Plus given the tremendous amount of subjects to write about, it couldn't hurt devnet's search engine rankings.
What do you guys think? That's my $0.02