Re: [PHP] Newbie question to everybody....PHP

2002-05-11 Thread Olexandr Vynnychenko
Hello r, Sunday, May 12, 2002, 4:25:37 AM, you wrote: r> Greetings people, r> Special greetings to all of you who have helped me in the past. r> As most of you know i am a newbie, I learned a bit of PHP via webmonkey and r> a few other places, seeing the power of PHP i decided to convert from J

RE: [PHP] Newbie question to everybody....PHP

2002-05-11 Thread John Holmes
> 1)How many of you have seriously dug into arrays and has it been important > in your programming? > 1.1)Do you think you could have done the same thing you did with arrays > WITHOUT arrays? > (The reason i ask this is theres a whole chapter dedicated to arrays in > the > book & its pretty frustr

Re: [PHP] Newbie question to everybody....PHP

2002-05-11 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
I have never really understood why people have problems with arrays. Just think of an array as a table of values. A one-dimensional array would be a table with a single column and each row has a number (or index) assigned to it: +---++ | 0 | Apple | +---++ | 1 | Orange

RE: [PHP] Newbie question to everybody....PHP

2002-05-11 Thread Matthew Walker
1. I have dug deeper into arrays than I care to remember. 2. Absolutely not. 3. See http://www.php.net/sleep and http://www.php.net/usleep Glad to hear you're converting to PHP! It's an amazing language, and I don't see it going away any time in the near future. Hope you have fun, and be sure t

Re: [PHP] Newbie question to everybody....PHP

2002-05-11 Thread Bogdan Stancescu
Hi! 1. I believe every serious programmer out there uses arrays on a regular basis... 1.1. ...exactly because there are so many problems virtually unsolvable without them. Take for instance the case of a product page where people would fill in ordering quantitites. My recommendation would be

Re: [PHP] Newbie question to everybody....PHP

2002-05-11 Thread Neil Highley
Why would you want a scripting language to sleep, there is no such thing as a loop in a web page (yes, I know it would be possible, but it would lock up a users machine). I know you can set up the apache daemon to run on-demand to conserver resources, but I think you are getting mixed up between