We have a good very condensed PHP Cheat Sheet we want to sell. Saved us form having to keep looking things up on the web while coding.
In 1999 we wrote this 4-page PHP cheat sheet with everything we needed on it. We were too busy building multimillion dollar sites to market it.
Does any one know if any one is selling such a product? If so, please let us know so that we do not duplicate effort.
Well, we still have a dog-eared hard copy rough draft of it kicking around the office. We code in different languages all the time so we need a little sheet to check syntax as we switch among C++/Perl/Java/Python/AWK/SED/grep...
We were wondering if any of you would be willing to take the time to polish it up - it needs to be put into pdf, too, so that we can sell it. I did all the grunt work. We tested it internally and still use it regularly.
I personally spent a tedious three weeks on the thing a few summers ago so I have an interest in making a buck out of it.
Probably want to ad an XML parsing section, though. I could provide the new code for that. Any other input would be welcome. We put in it what we needed to save us time while coding a bunch of sites in various languages at the same time.
We could split the profits depending on how much effort you can put into typing it up (I did more than my share of that) from the hard copy, checking it, updating it, purdying it up, putting it into pdf - I don't think we have pdf-making software in the office, and selling it. just make sure there isn't already such a product out there before starting (and let me know please)!
It would simply be sold on line, not through a bookstore. We're familiar with publishing and it's not worth it to just do one little title through a bookstore though we know how to get ISBNs, bar codes, laminate....laminating is real expensive so probably just an electronic download format is best. The user can just make a copy when the original gets cruddy.
Anyway, it has good PHP-Oracle code such as how to get metadata for a given Oracle database when you don't have the right to get into sqlplus and of course PHP-MySQL code. I always use this code when starting on a new existing project so I don't screw up the database - no one tells me what's in there and I need to make sure what triggers and foreign keys there are...
Also, it answers the questions newbies have on forums. Staff every one gets stuck one and posts "PLEASE HELP" about.
It was made for pros switching to PHP for some projects and not for students learning to program for the first time. Really a good reference.
If interested in collaborating out please send me an email. We're going to do something similar for Java which language we use most of the time these days.
In addition we would be happy to provide a good professional reference for a job well done. Please do it remotely - we are either at a client office or we stay home, we don't have any central office we want to bother commuting to.
Lisa
Last edited by javamint on 12-21-2002 at 08:30 PM