As I bumble through my exciting education in the world of unix, php and other scripting, I keep coming across tiny barriers.
Essentially I know what I want to accomplish, but I don't know how. So I start down a path and when I don't know what to do next I have to do some reading to learn how to do whatever it is that is stopping me from going further. As I learn that I will come across another roadblock that further diverts me. Finally when I have cleared all the road blocks I can get back on the main track and finish what it was that I originally wanted to get done.
I kind of call it Zen learning. Just keep following the diversions and don't get frustrated by them. Everything I learn will come in handy one day... and in most cases comes in handy right away. So as long as I plod along and not get frustrated the whole experience is going to be fine.
Tonight I started with learning about how to create classes and instantiate them. But I don't want to hard code those Then I wanted to learn about including files. But I don't want my includes in the same directory. That took me to php_value include_path. But I can't change my hosts php.ini file. That took me to httpd.conf and .htaccess. Which opened my eyes to some issues I hadn't even considered. So I tackled those. And am still tackling others. I hope that by the end of all this I will have completed my original task.
See everything here is new. Every hurdle is a new one. I have solutions for all of these issues on another un-named platform - but I have to find new ones for this platform.
Once again thank god for the open source community and the abundantly documented nature of all these products.
andre
Posted by andre at February 9, 2004 04:06 AM