i've been doing html for years, working with perl for several and php for about one. one thing i love to do is take a script and make it into something totally different. for example, i took a 'add to my links' script and changed it into a 'my current mood' script. but often i get stuck on trying to create or modify one single function. the latest one was figuring out how to pull one single line from a database. should have been simple, but not for one who has never seen the coding before. i worked on it for hours (really) and finally got it working like i wanted it to.
so, am i alone in this? i tend to exhaust myself before asking certain things. while i feel great at finishing that function, i could have asked earlier and been done with it.
btw, it was for a personal website so no work hours were lost.