[FX.php List] else....An Epiphany

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

To a certain extent I agree, however to use FX.php, what you really
need to learn is not the entire 1200+ pages of functions, but the
functionality described in these 5 links, mainly the two top ones:

http://www.php.net/array
http://www.php.net/strings
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http://www.php.net/key
http://www.php.net/implode
http://www.php.net/explode

ggt667

On 7/9/06, Jonathan Schwartz <jonathan at eschwartz.com> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, Erik. And a very belated thank you also to Dale
> Bengstrom, Steve Winter, Travis Kroh, Kevin Futter and Timothy Tait who also
> made suggestions when I first published this post in June. It turns out that
> I learned a lot more than just IF statements.
>
>
> With this post and the wealth of expert responses I received on how to coax
> PHP to respond properly to nested IF statements (or better stated, how my
> *script* could be coaxed to talk with PHP properly), I had yet another
> epiphany in the long road to mastering FMP CWP with fx.PHP: It's all about
> learning PHP.
>
>
> While anyone can successfully re-construct the simple scripts offered up in
> various fx.php examples and tutorials, the false sense of accomplishment
> that is gained by this initial success quickly falls away when you want to
> move past the simple script and build real-life scripts.  After trying to
> learn FMP CWP using fx.php by looking up a PHP function at a time, I now
> realize that that was equivalent to being dumped into a foreign language
> country with a cheat sheet of common phrases plus perhaps a dictionary: Good
> luck if wanted to move past "¿dónde está el teléfono?".
>
>
> So, since June, I have been learning PHP from the ground up to create the
> base of knowledge necessary to
> build FMP/fx.php solutions with confidence.  While my kids played in the
> beach sand on our family vacation, I had my nose in PHP books. My favorite
> was Larry Ulman's "PHP for the World Wide Web" (Visual Start Guide, Peachpit
> Press).  What a difference a little base education makes.  Now, the sight of
> the most basic PHP functions doesn't send questions marks floating around my
> head.  And, the offering up various scripting alternatives from members on
> this list now make much more sense.
>
>
> For the benefit of all those who desire to master FMP CWP with
> fx.php....take my advice.  Learn PHP as a first step. I wish I knew this
> before I started.  I'm certainly glad that I know it now.
>
>
> HTH.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> At 11:57 PM +0200 7/8/06, Erik Andreas Cayré wrote:
>
>  How about:
>
>        if ($findResult['email1isempty'][0] &&
>         $findResult['email2isempty'][0]) {
>
>
>  --
>
>
>
> Jonathan Schwartz
> Schwartz & Company
> 817 Marin Drive
> Mill Valley, CA 94941
> Phone: 415-381-1852
> jonathan at eschwartz.com - http://www.eschwartz.com
>
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