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I'm fourteen and have no problems with the manual. Am having some trouble with OOP, but that's a whole nother ballgame.

OOP is easy.

I dont know how you can still use PHP without knowing the greats of OOP

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Jeremie - Used to be the Director of Community Development

I use OOP a lot with PHP, but I often forget its not C++ and make some syntax boo boos.

I can't wait for PHP5, namespaces.... YUM!

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Fomerly known as lasnaranjas. Holler.

heh i'm not the only one who cant wait for PHP5 with new OOP toys to play with

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Jeremie - Used to be the Director of Community Development

could you please add "function" before storeCurrentSong() {, if you wanna make this tutorial understandable.. some could think you're calling a function like that!

The fact of the matter is that 85% of the questions in this forum can be solved with a simple search of the manual, and 10% more could be solved by searching tF or google. The thing is, people don't. Week after week we get topics about headers already sent errors and stuff like that. We get too few posts about optimization, security, logic errors and stuff like that, which, imo, i think the majority of the posts should be.

On OOP, its hard as hell if you don't know any theory going into it and start right with code, but if you take 5 minutes and figure out the theory and purpose its a whole lot easier.

EG - I disagree with "I dont know how you can still use PHP without knowing the greats of OOP ". As PHP is currently not a OOP language in many, many ways the very vast majority of scripts can be made with out any OOP at all.

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erm i'm sorry for any confusion made, that was only some kind of humour. I know that it's possible to do almost every existing PHP applications without OOP. (We all did this before we knew how to use objects)

But you can't disagree if I say that OOP is a great feature of PHP.

I agree 100% when you say we dont get enough posts about optimizations (I still see people using echo "$var"; very often, even in some tutorials!!), security (like using $_POST['var'] directly in a query, without double checking if the var is set and if the value is valid), etc

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Jeremie - Used to be the Director of Community Development

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Originally posted by EvilGenius

(I still see people using echo "$var"; very often, even in some tutorials!!)

whats wrong with echo "$var"; ?

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Fomerly known as lasnaranjas. Holler.

four more key strokes

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lasnaranjas: there's nothing wrong, it's just unoptimized (since you can do it without the quotes and it will be executed faster)

with double quotes, PHP interpret this as a string, send it to the string parser, which check the whole string for excaped characters (\r, \n, etc) and variables to replace them with the right values.

without double quotes, PHP simply throw the variable to the echo function, without having to parse a string

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Jeremie - Used to be the Director of Community Development