Re: [PHP] Newbie question to everybody....PHP

2002-05-11 Thread Neil Highley
Why would you want a scripting language to sleep, there is no such thing as a loop in a web page (yes, I know it would be possible, but it would lock up a users machine). I know you can set up the apache daemon to run on-demand to conserver resources, but I think you are getting mixed up between

Re: [PHP] Newbie question to everybody....PHP

2002-05-11 Thread Bogdan Stancescu
Hi! 1. I believe every serious programmer out there uses arrays on a regular basis... 1.1. ...exactly because there are so many problems virtually unsolvable without them. Take for instance the case of a product page where people would fill in ordering quantitites. My recommendation would be

RE: [PHP] Newbie question to everybody....PHP

2002-05-11 Thread Matthew Walker
1. I have dug deeper into arrays than I care to remember. 2. Absolutely not. 3. See http://www.php.net/sleep and http://www.php.net/usleep Glad to hear you're converting to PHP! It's an amazing language, and I don't see it going away any time in the near future. Hope you have fun, and be sure

RE: [PHP] Newbie question to everybody....PHP

2002-05-11 Thread John Holmes
1)How many of you have seriously dug into arrays and has it been important in your programming? 1.1)Do you think you could have done the same thing you did with arrays WITHOUT arrays? (The reason i ask this is theres a whole chapter dedicated to arrays in the book its pretty frustrating)

Re: [PHP] Newbie question to everybody....PHP

2002-05-11 Thread Olexandr Vynnychenko
Hello r, Sunday, May 12, 2002, 4:25:37 AM, you wrote: r Greetings people, r Special greetings to all of you who have helped me in the past. r As most of you know i am a newbie, I learned a bit of PHP via webmonkey and r a few other places, seeing the power of PHP i decided to convert from Java