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@roopurt: Seems like an awful lot of baggage just to prevent some syntax errors...one of the easiest types of bugs to squash. And what's to say you won't typo the php code itself! But I remind myself that I am by no means as versed a coder as most people around here, so I'm sure there's some greater benefit to it I'm not seeing...

I don't disagree that there is nothing inherently wrong with register globals. But it was apparently abused to the point that it was changed to being off by default, and soon to be altogether removed. It's the same argument as guns killing people: guns don't kill people, people kill people. That's right, but if there's so many people killing each other, it's a problem that needs to be addressed, and a good way to address that is by controlling the guns. My logic with $_REQUEST being like register globals was not that it in and of itself is bad, but that it's easier to get lazy about programming, and end up opening up abusing it the same way as register globals was abused.

tibberous said he hates it when people use $_GET or $_POST instead of $_REQUEST (IOW he was saying you should use $_REQUEST). I was questioning why he felt that way, and argued that if anything, using $_REQUEST is not ideal.

so tibberous, is using $_GET and $_POST instead of $_REQUEST just a personal pet peeve of yours, or do you have a real reason why that's some kind of bad practice? If anything, I would argue the opposite, as $_REQUEST holds both, it's one step closer to the concept of register globals. ...and same goes with someone using their own framework they built...I sort of fail to see how that's bad practice. Do you know the ins and outs of all the existing "big name" frameworks out there? And btw they did have to start somewhere themselves; at one point in time they were also no-name frameworks.

okay, I can understand doing that for large amounts of html but seriously what you have there makes it less readable IMO.... Why not just use heredoc instead?

ah, quote nomination. Dunno...I mean, I did mildly lol at it. Felt the need to IM someone about it even (before I got down to your post, even), but dunno, just not feelin' it. Bit too cliche and predictable. I guess to be fair, some of the other ones I have are too...hmm...fuck, now I have to sit here and make an actual decision about something...

are you implying that I am businessman?

Eh? Badgers.

I remember seeing return of the jedi in theaters when I was a kid. My dad said he took me to empire strikes back too, but I don't remember that one. Anyways, you should check around, you're more than likely able to find them playing somewhere in your area, occasionally, or make some kind of request for it. A lot of movie theaters do like matinees or midnight matinees where they play older movies. Popular one is rocky horror picture show. And many theaters allow you to rent out screens for a couple hours for a fairly reasonable price (people do it all the time for meetings or bday parties). Point is, you don't have to hope for it, you can make it happen for relatively cheap, if you're that intent on it.

win

i do agree that the traditional blue links seem old and worn out. Vote #3! It's still got some tradition mixed in it, for those who prefer to dip their feet in the pool instead of cannonball in!

#3 is my first choice. #2 is my 2nd choice

Well you're the button pusher, you tell me, lol. If it's not a hard thing for you to do, then uh...go forth and push buttons. Yeah.

"People don't follow links, therefore we shouldn't make it easy to notice links." How does that make sense? The easier the links are to notice, the higher the chance of someone actually following them. I see that, and raise you with: "People must not be buying our stuff because we aren't advertising enough or making our ads big and bright enough or maybe we should keep calling them over and over again because maybe they didn't answer the phone because we missed them." My point being that (IMO) most people don't follow links because they don't want to, not because they can't find them.

yes, I saw it. I'm not disagreeing with the notion that the links could stand out a bit more. My point was nobody bothers to follow important links anyways, regardless of how we mark it up, so why bother.

maybe if people actually made use of the links (like to the rules, or the manual), this might be worth looking into

Also, since we probably won't be jumping in individually welcoming every single person comes by, here's your generic welcome message: Greetings, ___________ ! Thank you for joining the board! Feel free to ask any question, but please don't be stupid about it. Make an effort to pick the right forum, make an effort to be detailed about your question, make an effort to read relevant stickies/rules, and we'll make an effort to help you. .CV

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"level system" is pretty ambiguous... care to be more specific?

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorial/php-add-text-to-image

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I believe thorpe is working on something like that right now. Don't have an ETA or anything.

How about a captcha tutorial? Lots of them around, but we're supposed to be a resource, right? I may do it myself, if someone else doesn't volunteer.

Honestly I don't really see anybody writing a tutorial like that on a technical level (actual code). Maybe on some kind of abstract level, like conveying general principles and program flow and good design, advice and pitfalls, etc.. but most tutorials that involve actual code are for teaching how to make building blocks. Things like forums and blogs and cms' are more like actual buildings, not building blocks. If you sit down and break down for instance all the things in a forum, you will quite easily find tutorials for just about all of those 'building blocks.' I suggest you either do that, or maybe find an open source version of one of those things and jump into it, instead.

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