Re: [PHP] Is there a PHP for Dummies?

[Leif K-Brooks]

I can find an answer to nearly any question I have about PHP in the 
manual.  Any examples of what you're unable to find?

Beauford.2002 wrote:

I found that after the fact, but my question was regarding tutorials, books,
or other docs. This was just an example I used. In general I don't find the
PHP manual very helpful - I tend to get more out of the users comments than
the actual manual..
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Subject: Re: [PHP] Is there a PHP for Dummies?
 

After a quick search of the php manual, I came upon
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.info.php#ini.magic-quotes-gpc, which
   

says:
 

Sets the magic_quotes state for GPC (Get/Post/Cookie) operations. When
magic_quotes are on, all ' (single-quote), " (double quote), \
(backslash) and NUL's are escaped with a backslash automatically.
Seems to explain it pretty nicely.

Beauford.2002 wrote:

   

No,  the name explains absolutely squat. What is a magic quote? Sounds
     

like
 

something I smoked in the 60's. Maybe to you it makes sense as you know
     

what
 

it does. To me it means absolutely nothing - nor does the PHP manual
     

explain
 

it.

B.

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That is a really, really, really poor example.  Tha name says it all.
       

It
 

gets the magic quotes setting for gpc(get, post, cookie).  You can
       

figure
 

out what most PHP functions do just by looking at their names, that's
actually what I like about PHP.
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 1:54 PM
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Subject: [PHP] Is there a PHP for Dummies?
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.

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