If anyone wants to pursue this, here's the thread. I do not believe the list should be split, although there is a mix of new and advanced questions. Although the some of these are best answered by an RTFM and a reference to a tutorial, the newcomer benefits by exposure to advanced concepts and topics.
The list receives posts related to database and installation questions, although there are lists for those. There is a relatively high level of cross-posting between the general and db lists. If general was split into newcomer and advanced, I believe cross posting would increase. Newcomers do need help; who will read and support them on the newcomers list? Traffic will tend to migrate to the advanced list. Many of these questions argue for a FAQ, yet we have a lot of rich and informative tutorial resources, and an excellent, on-line, annotated manual. One suggestion I would have in this regard would be to feature "Tutorials" link much more prominently on the php index page. My premise for that last sentence was the relatively small "Links" tag on the top right hand of that page. Thinking that maybe I should look again, just to be sure, what did I find? 1. Under the "What IS PHP?" heading, a link to a rudimentary tutorial 6 lines down in the opening paragraph. 2. Links to the manual and to the links page within the same paragraph. 3. At the end of the introductory tutorial a link to the links page. 4. Within the links page, links to other tutorials, script resources, PHP information in other languages, etc. *WOW*, what a rich resource, all free, with information of incredible depth! How many other languages, have such a library of references and tips to hand? All this for a language which was announced to the world on June 8, 1995? Conclusions? 1. Don't split the list. 2. Maybe change RTFM to WEHAVAGEM (WE HAVe A Grand Extensive Manual), did you read the bit on ...? 3. Keep a list of tutorials to hand on: Databases and Normalization, SQL Queries, Basic PHP techniques. 4. I believe Rasmus Lerdorf should be nominated for the Order of Canada. It's the end of the week. Let's not wrangle too much over this, but enjoy the weekend. Regards - Miles -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
