Pornsite looking for PHP dev, will I be able to get it!?

[Deleted]

...I'm sure there would be lots of cumpetition for a job in the porn industry...

nice typo

[lopk]

nice typo

He made another one too; see if you can find it.

[haxartus]

The average requirements for a good IT job nowadays are like 5 pages long.

[ddsad2212]

First off there is an unused thread that we are meant to post about programming in, just to point that out because I kind of wish it was used a bit more:P. Anyway you simply do not yet have the experience for that big of a job. You could try going to college or building up a portfolio doing smaller jobs however.

[vindicatorx]

No I said I know how to use rainmeter and bb coding, which is pretty much the same basics as PHP. I know how to use variables, if & else commands and a few more so I know stuff about it!

You realize every programming language has if then statements right? Saying BB is like PHP is laughable. You do not qualify for this job and applying for it is wasting the employers time. I've been using PHP and MYSQL for a year plus now and I wouldn't say I am qualified for this position.

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I am confused. Are you Lead Developer AND Intern for the same non-profit O_o How does that work? You're a temp but you have a position that under normal circumstances would be delegated to someone with a high level of experience (and a decent pay rate, even for a non-profit). Are they just milking your experience and paying you an intern age (or no wage, god forbid).

Sorry - sort of hate the intern system in America. It's basically slave labor.

I am an intern for the university and I am lead developer of this NPO's project. Yes, it is slave labor both the university and the NPO get $25 an hour tax exemption that I work and I have to put in near 400 hours.

[Badpaladin]

Is this enough experience or should I just give up on that job?

(Do your best to ignore any syntactical errors; I'm in C# land)
Can you tell me, given that everything that would come before and after this snippet of code works fine, why this snippet of code is bad?

$sql = "SELECT * FROM VideoTable";
if($result = msqli_query($connection, $sql)) {
	while ($record = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
		if ($record['genre'] == "hardcore") {
			printf ("Here's a harcore porn video: %s\n", $record['videoName']);
		}
	}
}

What about this?

$name = $_POST["user"];
$pwd = $_POST["pwd"];
$query = "SELECT name, pwd FROM users WHERE name = '$name' AND pwd = '$pwd'";

Do you understand why Source Control is important? Do you know how to inspect items in a browser to quickly figure out why styles aren't getting applied properly? Given a set of requirements written from a user perspective (e.g. "As a user, I want to filter my search results by rating") could you draft requirements, write code to the spec, write unit tests to ensure key functions operate as intended, and finally write tests from a user perspective ensuring it works in any way they could normally interact with it?

If you couldn't figure out the code-reading questions almost instantly and you answered no to any of the other questions, then you have some work to do before you should apply to that position.

[Al Gorefiend]

nice typo

the whole sentence was punny.

[Dyminator]

University

University doesn't count as experience...

[GKLeatherCraft]

Breast of luck to you in getting the job, I'm sure there would be lots of cumpetition for a job in the porn industry, especially for an online pornsite.

Lol dude, Good play sir:P

[Elite Peon]

Serious reply : I know it might seem like an interesting job but try and look ahead to the future . You gonna want to tell your parents you work on a porn website ...friends ...and seriously are you going to want to tell a girl you meet you work in the porn industry ? How do you tell future potential employers that you worked making porn websites?? A lot of people would pass on you thinking you are some kind of pervert or weirdo ( even though they probably watch porn to ) . Even if you have the skills do you really want to deal with all that ? As an older adult im giving you the strong encouragement to stay away from that job .

Look at it this way . If I was hiring a cashier for my store and one guy came in with 10 years cashier experience from a porn shop and one guy came in with 5 years experience from a local deli shop who do you think im going to hire ? Who do you think im going to assume is a weirdo ?

[Flaks]

University doesn't count as experience...

People really REALLY need to stop saying this.

Yes, having a college degree does NOT mean you really know how to do shit or are ready for the real world at all.

BUT, having a college degree is a massive leg up simply because companies that higher people are more likely to do so under the assumption that they did do something in their college career. Their resume helps bolster that because it will include all of the EXPERIENCE YOU HAD/HAVE learning things required for that field.

If you're willing to put in the 2+ years of experience outside of University doing the same thing a college student was SUPPOSED TO BE DOING IN COLLEGE then you have enough to compete with them. Otherwise, too bad, should have gotten a degree because IT DOES DENOTE EXPERIENCE TO EMPLOYERS.

[Mister K]

No I said I know how to use rainmeter and bb coding, which is pretty much the same basics as PHP. I know how to use variables, if & else commands and a few more so I know stuff about it!

You open up a php doc, you look at it and the question is, can you work it? If the answer is no, go learn. Start small, build a site, a CMS and you might have a chance.

Personally, I can move around in a php doc, unfortunately I can't create anything apart from modifying what is already there at a small scale. I find that phpBB is a great platform to start modding and gain experience in css, html and php as well DB side of things.

[Kraenen]

Try out netbeans! i'm using it to learn HTML/CSS + JS + PHP + a bit of Java on the side. It's great to have a compiler that helps you with spelling and errors that wouldn't get caught if you used just a text document. plus it's nice to have it nicely formatted and code put into their own folders.

[lopk]

Somewhat off-topic, but I feel that this thread would have been much better off if you hadn't mentioned that it was a porn site, considering that it has absolutely nothing to do with your situation. Because you did mention that fact, it does make me slightly question your motives. Anyway, they want experience with PHP, and you don't really have it. It wouldn't hurt to apply, but I can't imagine that you'd get too much success.