On 05/22/2014 11:35 AM, Anthony Ferrara wrote:
Gary,
Consider the secretary updating their company website. They have been told
that they need some landing page to say "Welcome <name>" at the top.
The pages are mostly html with a bit of PHP here and there. So they go to
an online tutorial, go through steps 1-4 where they learn about "hello
world" which is a simple little tutorial of
$name = $_GET['name'];
echo "Hello $name";
Who said to `echo "Hello $name"`? I sure didn't.
That was stated in my original post. I thought I was quite clear that
this method was for a specific class of users and I gave the example.
This is the common instructional pattern for teaching others PHP. They
almost all start with "Hello World" and follow it with "Hello $name"
where $name directly from $_GET['name']
That's why I made an effort to avoid using the pronoun "you" when
discussing using this method. IE I did not say "you" should use this
method meaning Anthony... nor did I say "you" to refer suggesting
people on this e-mail list should use this method.
The only time I deliberately use the word "you" is in the actual text of
my proposed "before you begin learning PHP programming" because there
the pronoun you refers directly to the individual who doesn't know PHP
at all yet.
Not bothering to address the rest of your comments since they seem to be
based on a misunderstanding.
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