[KLUG Members] PHP project

[Adam Williams]

>><option value=\"Byron \">Byron R
>The actual form has the last names in the value (I cleaned them -but 
>not the space- before posting source on the web)

trim() is your friend.  It is good practice to always call it when 
processing strings.  Especially when you have a member or procedure that 
recieves string paramters, one should always trim those as the first thing 
the member/procedure does

function yoyo($mama = "") {
 // Limit length of string to 255 characters then drop any leading
 // or trailing white space
  $mama = trim(substr($mama, 0, 255);
 ...
 return sprintf("%s swims out to troop ships", $mama);
 }

You can avoid some real mind grinders, and nefarious tricks, by being 
paranoid.

Your mother said not to talk to strangers; everyone on the web is a 
stranger.  If discretion is 9/10th of valour, then suspicion is 9/10th of 
survival.

>I am not very proficient in PHP.  I learned by looking at other peoples 
>code and then try using it in a different way.  

Is there any other way to learn?

>As you can see, I still have some things to learn. 
>Hey, at least I do all HTML, ASP and PHP coding in a text editor 
>(ok, every coupla months I hit Dreamweaver).  

Glimmer, the best code editor.  But a &*^$(+_@ to compile.

>Don't you hate when people call themselves _webmasters_ 
>because they can compose a page in Mozilla.  ); ))

If they'll pay me to call them webmaster I'm fine with that. :)

What yanks my chain is someone who "knows computers" because they can use 
a spreadsheet (and usually they can't really do that either).

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