I am definitely a novice, and I use the online manual, but a lot of times I won't even know what to search for, or I'll search for something and not find what I'm looking for, or I'll find what I think I'm looking for, then pour over some unclear examples and text and realize it's NOT what I'm looking for. I love that I can shoot off a question while at work and get an answer quick. It's too bad that my novice questions annoy people, but I'm just learning, and that's WHY I joined this list. It's a resource, just like the manual.
And as for Google, I don't feel like I have time to wade through pages and pages of irrelevant links until I find what I'm looking for when I have a better resource right here. On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Step Schwarz wrote: > The manual (especially user comments) and Google are invaluable to me as a > PHP coder. As fast as this list is to respond to a very basic question, the > manual and Google are faster. And more in-depth. So no offense but the > replies you consider to be neurotic I consider to be helpful. -Step > > > This is a very busy list, over 100 message in a quiet day and most people > > are helpful and decent, don't mind reading and learning. Unfortunately > > there are some who mostly post stuff like 'read the manual' and other shit > > like that. Stuffing e-mailboxes with such garbage day after day doesn't do > > anybody any good even if the manual is not being read as much as it should > > be. Is it too difficult to not answer the post at all if you disagree with > > the content? > > > > > > Andu > > > -- > 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
