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You are probably better off asking these "nuts and bolts" questions over at stackoverflow than trying to get a mentor. If you don't know enough php/programming
by weaksauce 17y ago
You are probably better off asking these "nuts and bolts" questions over at stackoverflow than trying to get a mentor.
If you don't know enough php/programming/whatever to know how to ask the right questions at that site then I would start by learning the basics of php via a book or something similar until you have enough "programming literacy" to be able to. It should not take too much to get up to speed on the simpler tasks and php has a ton of tutorial and documentation to learn from. Cheers and good luck.
- eagerpupil 17y agoI've used that site before. It's great for nuts and bolts stuff, but not so good for asking "how should I proceed in this specific situation?" questions. Also, I'd still be completely alone with all these problems. Knowing that X days from now I'll have someone to talk to about what I'm dealing with would be a tremendous boost.
- aliem 17y agoI agree you first need to enlarge your basic knoledge of the language thru a book (there are soo many about php). btw as far as i can see it seems you mostly need to learn how to test and debug your applications. If the codebase is becoming unreadable and confusing consider a complete rewrite on your own or by moving to a lightweight framework (I liked code igniter and kohana in my php days) or even a different language (Ruby and Python are nice languages)