I'd also wouldlike to stress an important matter here and I must say that I agree with the above mentioned statements made by Kejonn and uctxs.
The community here sure is demanding, but that is due to the quality of the service. Its like an education issue, peeps are used to a prompt response on almost any question. Alas, this does not mean that almost any question WILL get a prompt answer.
One thing is certain, one can't pretend to learn php or mysql from asking in some forum. Seek out examples from within the base code, mods or outside tutorials. Zend Technologies has a complete manual that covers ALL of the PHP functions and even will cover stuff not available in many of the hosts due to them being running v. 4 series of PHP.
If you still remain clueless after seeking out a nice round of self-help. Think about respect. Ask your question as if the person(s) READING the question are of the utmost importance to you. Not just the ordinary "I'll ask these guys and see what happens" kind of thing. When you write your question think like "There are a lot of knowledgeable members, I will ask in the forums because I tried my best and I did not get results".
Do not DEMAND help, no one HAS to help you, we all know the rhetoric about how much we all paid for PHPFusion and stuff, there is no need to be demanding about anything.
Pretty much I am echoing some of the stuff mentioned previously, but I also want to share my own experience in the year or so that I have been using PHPFusion.
As the author of this thread, I began using PHPFusion for a gaming site. The game is World of Warcraft and I had a guild site to build. Yes, I previosuly had a pure html site with a lot of pages and it was all nicely framed and stuff... but when I saw PHPFusion I couldn't hold myself back.
My knowledge about php was NULL, ZERO, NOTHING, NADA! I was totally lost looking at those $result=dbquery... blah blah blah... then I learned it was attached to a database and I was all the more clueless.
What did I do? Oh I came to the forums and demanded help... NOT! I found me a free code editor, and began opening up the core files and looking at the syntax. I started to try to make sense of the code and see what things had what effect on what was being displayed on the site.
This is learning by logic, hitting yourself against a wall ocassionally, but I think it is a lot more productive for our self-learning, to open the manuals, read the FAQs, search Google and retain some knowledge while we r at it, than just comming here demanding some help cuz u gotta help me. We are wrong if we think that we HAVE to be helped because this is a support site. I have got no help from the customer service line at my ISP and I have had an Internet connection that goes offline when it rains... how do you call that kind of support?
Basically, instead of asking asking asking in the forums... lets do some research of our own, thin down the possibilities, ask yourself as much as you can, coding and web design is a job for smart people, not anyone can come up to a computer and figure things out, so show yourself you are up to the task, and teach yourself the good stuff just as I did back then when I began using this CMS. No I am not saying you r dumb, but I am saying that you need to show yourself you are able to do at least that on your own. Search for the info, syntax, code your own page of php stuff and make it work within fusion, do experiments and try new stuff!... I mean, my site has all kinds of custom stuff and most part I made them... I had Kejonns calendar for some time, but the guild did not need an event scheduler so I dropped it, Shedrock's shoutbox came with some tooltimes, and I figured out the code to give those tooltips to the user info panel... simple things like, looking stuff over and testing to see if it works. Being a novice in coding requires more time to test, and my friend you have two fansites (gamesites) you do not need to rush yourself, the users of your sites can wait a week more if you dont have a theme ready or a table up. They simply go there post stuff up in forums and chat around. Your site wont fall apart if you dont come up with some new flashy thing, so try to set aside the WANTS from the NEEDS and clear out the NEEDS accordingly.
Thats more or less my advice, experience and bit of wisdom on the subject. This is merely a logic and reasoning issue. Anyone smart enough to pursue knowledge in coding and web programming languages must have the inteligence to know that with a strong demanding attitude we go nowhere. Greet the people that will help you, thank them for their help, invite them to see the results of their help, show them how this helped you, make them KNOW that their help was awesome, for that help is what makes THIS community unique. As uctxs said, go to Mambo/Joomla or PHP-Nuke and ask the same way we ask in here... you'll grow a long white beard before u get 2 replies... and the first one will be an announcement about your thread being removed due to inactivity.
So, bottomline is... for those who get help, let us be grateful, and if you are seeking out help, just chill out and be concise when asking, dont float about with vague explanations. Post the code, include the php file as a zipped attachment and wait patiently, bump after ONE WHOLE day if it is urgent, if not simply bump after a week... be kind, no need to rush if no rush is deemed necesary.
That is my loose change on the issue... cuz I think thats more than just ten cents?
Aight mates, cheers and great job!
PS:ucxs, nice theme site u got man! real cool themes!