RE: [PHP] Stop neurotic posting

Your example is ridiculous -- it looks like you want a search egnine to
properly phrase the question for you.

This works and is more concise and clear: php find a string in a string

Really, I don't think people should be using the mailing list in lieu of
purchasing a book on PHP or reading one of the many online tutorials.
After you've acquainted yourself with the language, the syntax, and some
coding style (I hate the "anyone see what's wrong with this [insert your
favourite piece of self coded 1000 character long mess here]), then by
all means ask questions which are troubling to you. I rarely answer
questions anymore because I find that many people want the coders on the
PHP mailing list to do their work for them because they're too lazy to
bother doing some research. Also to get back to the problem of wording
queries wrong in google or whatever -- maybe trying a fwe different
queries would help. Anyways this is all just my humble opinion.

Cheers,
Rob.


On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 14:44, Chris W. Parker wrote:
> Jennifer Goodie <mailto:goodie@apollointeractive.com>
> on Wednesday, August 06, 2003 11:27 AM said:
>
> >> and in any event they're often things I
> >> wouldn't have thought about looking up anyway.
> >
> >
> > I love how the argument for not doing research is not having the
> > time/not wanting to waste time. That is just lazy and selfish.
>
> I totally agree with you on the time factor. The answerers time (for
> lack of a better word) is more important than the questioners time
> (again, for lack of a better word).
>
> But I think a good point that the above quote contains is "in any event
> they're often things I wouldn't have thought about looking up anyway".
>
> I find that, although I know my question is rudimentary, I don't even
> know how to search for it on google or in the archives. I don't know
> what a function is called, or what it /might/ be called and therefore my
> only recourse is to describe what I'm thinking (or trying/wanting to do)
> to another human being that can better interpret my question than google
> or the archives can.
>
> I'll even search groups.google.com by asking my question in as few words
> as possible. Sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't, and mainly
> because people don't always ask the same question the same way.
>
> Here's an example...
>
> "How do I return a string based on certain criteria? For example I've
> got the string 'magical mystery tour' and I want to return the word
> 'myst' if it's found within the original string."
>
> A bad answer would be:
>
> "RTFM http://php.net/preg_match"
>
> A good answer would be:
>
> "That can be done with a regular expression. The function you're looking
> for is called preg_match. http://php.net/preg_match"
>
>
> And guess what, I pasted that question into google and it gave me not
> one good result. It did tell me how the Rio works though.
>
>
> My .02
>
> Chris.
>
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