Writing a Plugin

Nope. Why?

BTW, the files don’t show you how, explanations are needed.

No, like how to make a plugin or php file. How to construct them.

Start with, “First you place the start here, formatting it in just this way. For your information, here are the parts of the start, what they are and what they do. To do a function you must format it this way, and here is how it is constructed and what it does.”

Not everybody works the same way. I don’t process information the way most people do, and I can’t be told what to do, I need to be shown.

Catacaustic,

The header and license stuff I get, but guidelines on how PHP is structured an what each part does is still obscure to me. Not everybody has the same background. What I need is a break down of each PHP function, and how it is implemented. For example, from the Hello Dolly plug in we find…

lines 46-51: // Here we split it into lines
$lyrics = explode( “\n”, $lyrics );

// And then randomly choose a line
return wptexturize( $lyrics[ mt_rand( 0, count( $lyrics ) – 1 ) ] );
}

Now, where does one find a good introduction to PHP? One that doesn’t assume everybody knows what PHP experts do.