Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  PHPitfalls: Five Beginner Mistakes to Avoid (06 Oct 2004) It’s not only in programming that the uninitiated stumble, of course. Who didn’t teeter into a ditch full of water when learning to ride a bike or accidentally hang up on someone in the office when trying to transfer a call for the first time? There’s nothing wrong with making beginner mistakes if you’re a beginner, but we might as well try to head some mistakes off at the pass. My perusal of various developer forums has helped me spot several trends in beginner mistakes, and I’ll address some of the most common problems I’ve run across while sifting through nearly incomprehensible forum postings in search of beginners in distress. Article URL: http://www.digital-web.com/articles/phpitfalls/ Read 271 more articles from Digital Web sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy