It's a slang term that just means 'a bit here and a bit there', nothing consistant or continuous :)

Thank you all for replying - you have given me some great motivation!!

My first project (I hope!) will be to create a yellow-pages-type 'directory' somehow integrated with vB :paranoid: (well my first real project anyway!). Wish me luck!! (and please look out for my 'help' posts coming to a computer screen near you soon!)

Ok... Update.... Just ordered: PHP and MySQL Web Development, 3rd Edition
Luke Welling, Laura Thomson, from amazon.co.uk ?25.55 :bunny:

Heh, you hurried with that, because php.net's manual + google might have been more than enough. But oh well ;) additional manuals have never hurt anybody.

Yes you are right DV - I'm one of those people that need to commit myself to something (normally finiancially!!) in order to stick with it for a while. I will probabaly make a lot of use of your suggestion too (particularly when I need to refer to something thats not covered in the book) so your advice was no way in vain, and I appreciate your thoughts and posts in this thread very much :)

I also like books because I can read it where the computer screen cant easily go - ie the loo! lol

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