Suggestion - Consistent/accurate Terms

[Guest benriddell]

Hi,I tried and tried and tried to find contact information, but only found the forum.I'm disappointed in the PHP tutorial:http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_get.aspIt's defining $_GET as a *function*. It's not. It's an array.http://us2.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.get.phpThere's no publication date on the page, so no way to know how long it's been there.The footer says "We do not warrant the correctness of its content." But that's a huuuuge cop-out for an error as basic and egregious as this. Lots of newbies come to this site to learn, but if they learn that $_GET is a function, they're going to be confused little coders (and might not even be aware of the extent to which they are confused...).I am not a crank. Well, not normally. But I'm annoyed that there is no other way to contact the site owners.-Ben

[justsomeguy]

They do list an email address to contact with corrections somewhere on one of the About Us pages. That's obviously a problem in the tutorial though, it's borderline misleading. It describes $_GET as a built-in function. Print_r is a built-in function, $_GET is a superglobal array. This is an interesting line also:

The "welcome.php" file can now use the $_GET function to collect form data (the names of the form fields will automatically be the keys in the $_GET array):

They do the same thing on the $_POST page.

[jeffman]

Wow. We've had quibbles in the past, but this is the first real goof I remember that was quite so bad.

[justsomeguy]

Yeah, that looks pretty amateurish.