oh, and that reminds me ... another O'Reilly title, "PHP Cookbook" is REALLY helpful if, like a lot of us, you like to learn from examples ...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Is there a PHP for Dummies? > Try out "Programming PHP" by Rasmus Lerdorf from O'Reilly. I got it and > learned everything from it. Once you've read the book once or twice, you > can just use the PHP Manual... > > -Michael > On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 12:53, Beauford.2002 wrote: > > I'm really tired of trying to figure out the PHP manual and need something > > that explains things in plain straight forward English. Like > > get_magic_quotes_gpc() for example - the manual says how to use it and what > > it returns - but nowhere can I find out what it's for. Does it count sheep, > > do a quote of the day, or what - maybe I'm just stupid - but in any event I > > have spent more time in the last two weeks searching for things and getting > > no answers - Any help in pointing me a good straight forward tutorial/manual > > would be appreciated. > > > > B. > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
