BG> Sorry, I didn't follow the rules about Real Names only.
BG> 
BG> However....
BG> 
BG> Even though there are MANY, MANY e-books, tutorials, how-tos about PHP, I 
BG> this would be a great place to start a 'dummy level' tutorial about how to
BG> write PHP. I know I qualify as a learner.
BG> 
BG> How about it? Anyone up to the challenge?

I realize I'm probably two days late and a hundred dollars short, but I'd 
love to follow up on some decent lessons on PHP Programming.  I used to write 
scripts fairly regularly in PHP, but have gotten away from it and Perl.  Now, 
I have PHPexeOutput that I play around with PHP as well as a few scripts here 
and there on my website.  I used to do some really cool stuff, like 
connecting to other web servers, reading their web pages and filtering the 
content, then re-writing it to be a part of my web page.  (Think like RSS 
Feeds without having permission to snag their pages ;-)  )  Similiiar methods 
would permit me to interface with the BBS and display information regarding 
who is online from my offsite web page.  The neat thing about PHPexeOutput (I 
think that's the name, or just PHPoutputEXE or something like that...)  is it 
runs a server that provides the PHP scripting and allows you to load pretty 
much any module you want, change the PHP.ini settings and test your script 
without having to bring the web server down, bring it up, etc.   A lot easier 
to test PHP scripts in my opinion.....  And when your done, you can 
distribute them to your family, friends, etc. as an EXE file!  I have no idea 
how old this message is I'm replying to, I'm using a QWK mail door and 
aparently the dates are messed up....  All my PHP experience is self-taught, 
so any script I do is from trial and error.  If it works on my system and not 
yours, you'll have to ask somebody who knows what they're doing to explain 
why.... (at least for the most part!)  I'll have to look around to see what 
the tag name is for this echo and request it from my uplink.... 

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