Dear Friends,
Ever hear the parable about a breakfast of ham and eggs, how the chicken is involved but the pig is committed? You know, I tried google, wikiquote, etc., but could not find who said that first. Lots of people say it as if they were the first. I think I’ve missed the chance to get away with that. Anyway, my question is, where do you stand with PHP? Involved or committed?
PHP SKINNY SHEET, 2 pages, laminated, for when you’re occasionally involved with PHP
http://www.visibone.com/php/
The Skinny Sheet has the most useful and commonly needed things I could fit on one sheet. It’s example-biased, because for the easy questions I just want a simple example. These examples are organized by topic (strings, arrays, mysql, dates, regular expressions, form fields, output, etc.).
I’m burdening you with this choice so I could cop out of Solomon’s Choice of what to include. This way I get to be both ruthless and generous: The Big Book gets everything, the Skinny Sheet gets the cream. If you can’t decide, get them both and return one later. You make the tough choices so I don’t have to.
PHP BIG BOOK, 8 pages, spiral bound, laminated or not, for when you’re seriously committed
http://www.visibone.com/php/#bigbook
The Big Book has a massive alphabetized list of functions and other features, with complete syntax. It’s alphabetized for humans, so the under_scores don’t trip you up: strip_tags () is before str_ireplace () is before stristr(). It also has all the content of the Skinny Sheet, the same examples organized by topic, plus many more. This idea came out of the MySQL Camp last year: we want to find stuff both alphabetically and by topic. It occurred to me later to organize the examples by topic and syntax alphabetically. Tell me if you think it works, as I’m eager to do this in other areas.
All these tables you see here are in both the Skinny Sheet and the Big Book, in the Strings area. There’s also a massive section for regular expressions (smaller in the Skinny Sheet), but the preg stuff, not the ereg stuff. Was that a mistake, leaving out the ereg functions? Please let me know if your pet functions are not in here. But crikey I count 5900 functions in the PHP Manual. Someone had to exercise some discrimination.
CScs means case sensitive and CcIi means case insensitive. The legend explains these and other symbols. (The other one has nothing whatsoever to do with French terrorists.)
PHP with MYSQL, 12 pages, spiral bound
http://www.visibone.com/php/#combos
BOOK COLLECTION, 28 pages, spiral bound
http://www.visibone.com/php/#combos
Browser Book + PHP + MySQL
All shipping is now free, for all orders, to anywhere in the world. Isn’t that cool? I love typing that. Feel free to confuse this with a generous and noble or even worldly gesture. Or better yet a shrewd marketing attempt to nudge reluctant customers. The truth is it’s just so complicated making the shopping cart charge the right amount for shipping. And I hate overpaying for shipping. Don’t you? Now we can both be sure. Oh and by the way, in order to keep the fulfillment department (my lovely wife Patty) from an uprising, we also abolished discounts. So no more funny business, the price you see is the price you pay. Almost everything is simpler now. (You may have to pay customs duties outside the US. I think this was a good idea five hundred years ago. Today museums and movies are the only place we should see pirates. Ask for more of my unbiased, objective opinions about free trade.)
— Bob Stein, VisiBone, 1-207-725-2799
P.S. Lost interest in these love notes since you signed up for them? Find them taxing as a bad pun? Then hit us with your penalty.
P.P.S. So what’s next? I mean that in many ways. (I recently learned Flash ActionScript to make some ads. Wow. Very JavaScript-like. I strongly recommend you try it. It’s not just for cartoons.) So, now that we have a pretty cohesive bundle of web design technologies, what could you make with it? This mailing is going to about twenty thousand emails, many of which may actually be associated with humans, almost all of whom have a dozen great visions for online glory. Write me about yours. Especially what you make happen. Well of course I’m fishing. But I’m interested too.
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