Thanks PHP Forum

[Brett_Tabke]

Yesterday, I was forced - kicking and screaming - to learn some more PHP. I was working on a new install of the PayPal developers Kit. The sdk comes in PHP. So, I spent about 10 hrs yesterday getting it all installed and semi working. While doing so, I had to install about 5 packages, modules, and module preregs. That meant - for a php newbie - a whole lot of searching and reading around the net to get all the right modules and dependencies installed.

What amazed me, was about 8 out of 10 times, the answers to my queries were found right here in the PHP forum. It is hard to explain the smile one gets when you randomly click on a result in a search engine and are brought right here to this forum with a great answer attached to it.

Thanks to jatar_k, Coopster, and Ergophobe for making this the hands-down #1 webmaster PHP resource on the net today.

[jatar_k]

gee, thanks boss ;)

and for anyone else reading this, see, we're all newbies sometimes, no matter how long we have been at this something always comes up which makes you go hmmmm.

[edited by: jatar_k at 6:50 pm (utc) on July 7, 2005]

[dreamcatcher]

Thanks to Adam, Coopster, and Ergophobe for making this the hands-down #1 webmaster PHP resource on the net today.

I second that. Pretty much everything I know starts with these 3 guys. I am eternally grateful for everything they have shared with us.

dc

[ergophobe]

Hey, I'm just an environmentalist who believes in recycling: most of what I say here, I learned here!

Funny thing happened the other day. I was thinking "I wish I new how to do X. I wonder if there's something on the web about that." Did a search, clicked on the link and found an answer that told me exactly how to do it. It turned out to be a post here... that I wrote!

[jatar_k]

>> that I wrote

lmao, I have had the same thing happen, freaks me out ;)

[mack]

It's pretty cool. When ever I have any sort of IT or tech problem and I use Google, I very oftem find myself here via the serps.

#1 webmaster PHP resource on the net today.

Dam right.

Mack.

[dreamcatcher]

..clicked on the link and found an answer that told me exactly how to do it. It turned out to be a post here... that I wrote!

hee hee. Sounds like it might be time for a vacation ergophobe. ;)

[ergophobe]

BTW, while I appreciate the comments, I do feel the need to point out one very important fact. If you assume that the moderators make 2/3 of their posts in their own forum (just a wild guess), the three mods only account for around 8700 of the 51,500 posts made here.

There are a handful of core members who make contributions that often astound me for their quality and volume, and many many others who make less frequent, but still excellent contributions. What goes on here is more like a barn raising than anything else.

Sounds like it might be time for a vacation ergophobe

Well, the first law of ergophobia states: "It is always time for a vacation".

[Blackie]

It is always time for a vacation

he he, I though we all just was on one in NO :-)

P.S. and thanx everyone for keeping posting

[coopster]

What goes on here is more like a barn raising than anything else.

And that is the best part. I'm very humbled by the comments and compliments. I came to this forum long after Brett spun it off as it's own and placed jatar_k in charge of moderating it. jk watered it, worked it and made it grow. ergophobe was here before I was too and if his intelligence level isn't evidently several plateaus over mine you are missing something. I have learned plenty from both of these fellas and intend to glean more and more knowledge from them as time goes on. And the best part is they are both able to share their knowledge and courtesy in a fashion that should make anybody feel very blessed.

I am eternally grateful for everything they have shared with us.

dreamcatcher, you're words are probably the most humbling. We want everyone to know that it is out of the goodness of our hearts that we want to share and watch each of you become what you really want to become. Then to watch you do the same means we have led by example and at that point your gratitude becomes even more evident. Seeing you throw the rope out to somebody else is awesome. And then of course the pattern continues.

Yep, it's a "feel-good" Friday. There's your sunshine everybody ;)

[ergophobe]

he he, I though we all just was on one in NO :-)

Hey! Please pay attention! By the first law of ergophobia, that is irrelevant! To repeat, that law states: "It is always time for a vacation."

[jatar_k]

hehe, see why we make such a good team?

We are all a little different kinda nuts ;)

[maccas]

yep I am finding myself using site:webmasterworld.com more and more.

[jatar_k]

I think we are doing ok, we passed 50K messages on june 20, we have over 1600 posts since then, not bad ;)