Dreamwidth style system discussion

haha nice. My brother-in-law is sort of going the same way you are, and it's working for him. Whereas the most I can reliably do is includes. Useful sometimes! I am a coding minimalist (which got me into trouble at school because I was like helping people in my classes and they were like "where are all your line breaks, i do not understand" and then i was not successful at helping) and if there's something I'm going to be typing fourteen times, I would so much rather do it once and include it all over. I really need someone to lead me by the hand through PHP, equal parts to explain and to make me to do it regularly and rationally.