No, the name explains absolutely squat. What is a magic quote? Sounds like something I smoked in the 60's. Maybe to you it makes sense as you know what it does. To me it means absolutely nothing - nor does the PHP manual explain it.
B. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennifer Goodie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Beauford.2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHP General" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 5:07 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Is there a PHP for Dummies? > That is a really, really, really poor example. Tha name says it all. It > gets the magic quotes setting for gpc(get, post, cookie). You can figure > out what most PHP functions do just by looking at their names, that's > actually what I like about PHP. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Beauford.2002 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 1:54 PM > To: PHP General > Subject: [PHP] Is there a PHP for Dummies? > > > I'm really tired of trying to figure out the PHP manual and need something > that explains things in plain straight forward English. Like > get_magic_quotes_gpc() for example - the manual says how to use it and what > it returns - but nowhere can I find out what it's for. Does it count sheep, > do a quote of the day, or what - maybe I'm just stupid - but in any event I > have spent more time in the last two weeks searching for things and getting > no answers - Any help in pointing me a good straight forward tutorial/manual > would be appreciated. > > B. > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
