About PhpHelp.com

The guiding principles of phphelp.com are

• To educate our visitors: to avoid just handing out answers or code solutions without visitors learning anything.
• To accept that all people are beginners at one time; treat our visitors as we would want to be treated: without arrogance or contempt for people who have yet to learn what the more expert have.
• To explore the world of web applications development from the perspective of the beginner.
• To offer a continuous transition from beginner to advanced development abilities: beginners should not be left stranded.
• To achieve our goals through the PHP language, the most widely used open source programming language intended for embedding in web pages.
• To provide a community of learners and experts for asking questions and providing answers to web applications development in the PHP language.

Why choose PHP? PHP is an ideal language for the beginning web programmer to learn the basics of dynamic page generation, user interaction and database connectivity Moreover, PHP is simple enough to get started with web programming and complex enough to do serious work later on. Perl is a favorite language, but for me, PHP is easier to understand and program web pages in.

phphelp's Promise to You on Advertising

My promise to you the site visitor is that this site will never become a "banner farm" as long as I say what goes on phphelp. You will never see a browser popup window used for an adv. here. If the site cannot pay for itself out of my pocket and with any sales from books or stuff on the page without a bunch of cheap flashing casino ads, then I will take it down. If you'd like to advertise a product or service related to software development or hosting on this site in a tasteful way, let me know by a private message on the forums (Send it to "peg110").

Please Do Not Send Me Email

I am sorry to have to say this, but please do not send me email. Any address I expose on this site or the message board will just quickly become a spam catcher. I already have had enough of 10MB per three days of spam and virus payloads from idiots using MS Exchange who get their addressbook hacked. I was forced to close down all my open email addresses and consolidate them into several private email addresses I only give out to family, friends and clients. I do not like to give out my email address even as a member of sites, such as ebay or even reveal my emaill address through contact forms. Too many people join up just to search for email business contacts that way. They must have a lot of time on their hands. If I list a star wars item on ebay soon, I get spam selling me star wars stuff, if I list a crock, I get crockery offers by email, etc.

Stuff

phphelp.com was founded on 21 May 1999 by Steve Knoblock to give php beginners a friendly environment and community in which to solve php programming problems and learn the PHP programming language.

What is the graphic design of this site about? Steve wanted the appearance of the site to be different from most developer sites that have that 'high tech' look. He wanted the site to be as inviting as possible and was originally inspired by the design used for The Practical SQL Handbook.

Most of what you see on this site, graphics, style sheets, database and web programming was by Steve. It's taken Steve a long time to learn all this stuff with a lot of mistakes in between. Since Steve has many projects on his plate and other issues to contend with in his life (including family and jobs) He just hasn't had the time to devote to improving this site (and the many others that he maintains as well) and updating it like he wanted too. This is where I , Paul (peg110), have stepped in. I have offered to purchase the site and host/maintain it because I believe it to be a valuable asset to the programming community. This site (and the knowledge of SQL and web development from those that develop it) is (hopefuly) always improving. This site is devoted to teaching, not overloading you with a lot of stuff you can't handle, but not restricting you to any artificial dumbed down limits.