Well, all I have to say is thank god for this newsgroup and the core group of people who answer most of the questions here. I can understand some crankiness now and then after answering the same questions over and over or dealing with people who don't read the online manual and come here to post first.
I've been slapped down once or twice myself for asking a stupid or vague question. But, it's no big deal because the people here have helped me out time and time again by answering many PHP questions and providing sample code over the past two years, so for that I'm grateful. It would be nice, however, if there were some way to post a link to the FAQ here, because unless someone specifically posts the URL, there's no way to know it exists or how to reach it. I recommend that you first do a Google newsgroup search for any problems you have: http://www.google.com/grphp?hl=en&tab=wg - 80% of the time I find the answer I need without having to post at all. Also, read the user-contributed comments in the online PHP manual, they are often very helpful and provide a lot of useful sample code. Plus, there are lots of PHP sites out there, some of which have PHP forums, such as sitepoint.com. Monty > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Josh Close) > Newsgroups: php.general > Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:44:28 -0500 > To: PHP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [PHP] javascript type cast > > Ok. I write most my web apps in php. I rarely will use js for > anything, but I needed it on this rare occasion. I didn't want to have > to post to the same php page to get the results to change, so I though > a little js would do the job. > > Being a php list, I thought that a few others would have run into the > same issue while doing this. Would it have made it better if I talked > a little about the php work that was being done on the page also? > > All this is doing is making me like php less and less. And what about > the newer users to the list? This also makes me not want to answer > other peoples questions either. I've also noticed that a lot of > answers to peoples questions get flamed on this list also. It's like > you think you're better than them and came take them down for whatever > reason. > > Yes, the question was OT and I knew it. Yes, I found the answer via > google 5-10 mins later. I had already searched a while before for it. > And I'm not going to go and get on a js list for one question I may > have once every 3 months. I figured someone here has ran into the same > situation before. Especially since type casting is a common thing > among most languages (even php). > > All I have to say is, sorry I asked. I really wasn't worth it. > > -Josh > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
