PHP documentation - WAS: Stripping content from other sites using "socket" connections

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From: "Frank Boumphrey" <bckman(at)ix.netcom.com>
> <darrel>Aren't "tech-heads" what we are talking about, here? Web designers
> and
> programmers? I have found the PHP help documentation to be very helpful,
> even to including comments from previous users</darrel>
>
> Well  I agree with Darrel, or I guess I must be an IT tech-head! The PHP
> manual is the clearest documentation I have seen bar none!

I think I understand where Michael is coming from with regard to the PHP
documentation.  For one thing.  A "web designer" who only knows markup
languages with little or no basic programming experience (no pun intended)
might find the PHP documentation intimidating.

But as an ASP 3.0 coder learning PHP, I also found the documentation
initially confounding because I kept thinking in terms of VBScript.  Once I
overcame that hangup, which was a full-on conscious process,  the PHP docs
made sense.

I don't use a lot of PHP but what little I've used has impressed me.  There
are so many intricate functions that some "tech-head" had developed for us
so that all the developer has to do is call that built-in function.  In many
cases, ASP does not have an equivalent built-in function, forcing you to
write it from scratch.

Mike

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