[feldon23]

What about people with a good programming mindset and programming practices who are still learning PHP/MySQL?

My problem is, I try to research my question before asking it, and I try to ask conceptual questions (What is the best method to do this?) rather than procedural questions (what's chmod() do?!). But it is hard to be heard in a sea of the folks with the FLP (free lunch philosophy).

People learn a few lines of PHP and don't use the search engine, they just hit Post. Or they won't even try to search the PHP manual or thru the vBulletin files to find the function they need before posting.

On PHPBuilder.com, we've had these losers get downright abusive towards forum moderators/helpers for suggesting they use the search engine and look at the PHP manual before posting stuff like "how do I write a file?".