Thanks for all the tips folks, very useful. In response to Michael, I have just escaped the large corporate, global enterprise world that seems to fund much of the IT work done and in my experience most such organisations are only just now waking up to the concept and benefits of open source.
My ex-organisation for example tended to code either in ASP or .NET for small / medium scale or some flavour of Java for portals and heavy transaction stuff so I had no experience or libraries of PHP. Upon my excape, pausing only to don my hopelessly optimistic hat I went looking for a PHP site; something similar to the sites we all use that show how semantic mark-up should be used; or how good quality CSS can make site look good. Even poor old JavaScript thanks to gentlemen ( I use the word carelessly) like Jeremy Keith are busy helping our communities to play nicely with the DOM; which left just the "back-end". The problem is that right now unless we have one or two clearly signposted places where people can learn to do the right thing, young new programmers or even old f***s like me will get what help they can from the net and libraries, as I am sure you may have noticed such sites, books and courses are not always of the highest quality. Ian (Freelancing with a grin - ex Head Of Web Strategy BT Global Services) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Horowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:02 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] PHP Standards I am guessing that PHP is much like JavaScript in that a lot of what is floating about is either poor or pooh the result of all the good programmes stending their time on ASP or J2EE Why woul you think the good programmers spend their time and ASP or J2EE? Michael Horowitz Your Computer Consultant http://yourcomputerconsultant.com 561-394-9079 Designer wrote: > I think that it's basically your responsibility Ian, in that there are > many sources of snippets available and if you use them you just > validate the generated code and put right what is wrong in the php. > Then, you check for best practice too . . . > > Bob > > > > Ian Chamberlain wrote: >> Fingers crossed this is not too far off topic; being a newby to PHP; >> any clues where I can find how-to's, snippets, libraries or even >> application suites built from PHP that are built to a good minimum >> standard please. >> >> I am guessing that PHP is much like JavaScript in that a lot of what >> is floating about is either poor or pooh the result of all the good >> programmes stending their time on ASP or J2EE. >> >> Thanks >> >> Ian >> >> >> ******************************************************************* >> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ******************************************************************* >> >> >> >> > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
