Re: "waldschrotts guide to nifty references" - manualpage draft, version 0.9b
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Sat, 19 Aug 2000 22:42:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: "waldschrotts guide to nifty references" - manualpage draft, version 0.9b | ||
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> No it is *not* users guide. It is reference manual. If you want user's
> guide, fine, but it's not the same as reference manual. And they should be
> different, because they serve different purpose. In this case, we need two
> documents, and making existing reference manual into user's guide only to
> struggle afterwards to get reference manual back would be a clean waste of
> time and effort.
What makes you think the online manual is only a reference manual? It
doesn't say "Reference Manual" anywhere. It says "PHP Manual". It
includes a section called "Language Reference" and it includes another
section called "Function Reference", but there is a reason that these are
individual sections. If somebody wants to write some good tutorials
explaining various concepts in PHP, then they will be added. Have a look
through the things in the "Features" section of the manual.
-Rasmus