Useful Forums For Web Development?

Question

I am a new user to stackoverflow and have realized it isn't too beginner friendly and I need to ask a lot of silly questions.

So, I imagine this question is more valuable than any of my others.

I am looking for GOOD web development forums, mainly php, but please do send over all your recommendations. But I am looking for certain criteria to be met:

• must be active
• strong, active members (no newbies passing about bad advice)

Any recommendations?

For php, I have to say http://phpfreaks.com is fantastic!

EDIT:

Thanks for your comments and answers below, though they are all related to my criticism on stackoverflow. Don't get me wrong, I have found the information here absolutely second to none. There are TONS of high quality posts.

However, I have also found people simply ignore beginner questions. It just feels, to me, that the general community doesn't have time for ignorant questions.

..and yes, I have lots of ignorant questions.

I really don't want to divert others away from the site because I have become a big fan very fast, but I persist - I want to know what forums you well versed programmers (mainly php) use?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I've found StackOverflow to be extremely useful, and I'm a beginner in a lot of languages. Just be friendly, always attempt to find the answer for yourself BEFORE asking (use Google or search StackOverflow) and be coherant. If you follow those guidelines, I don't see why you'd have any issues.

Also, W3Schools has a nice simple tutorial for PHP: http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp