Re: "waldschrotts guide to nifty references" - manualpage draft, version 0.9b

At 21:38 21-08-00, Zak Greant wrote:

One major advantage of keeping the tutorials and other supplementary materials with the manual is that the PHP team will have control over the quality, presentation and licensing of the resources.

We'll have to live and see if that's true (IMHO it isn't). Uptil now, I don't think the material coming from the doc team was inherently better than the material from other sources; That's mostly because the actual developers of PHP rarely write documentation. The PHP documentation team is almost 100% PHP users, not developers.

This is important because 3rd party sites are often not reliable - they go down, change their content and revenue model, become member only, are abandoned by their maintainer, etc...

I can see your point here, even though I don't think it's likely to happen. Sites like phpbuilder.com, zend.com and weberdev.com aren't likely to ever become members only. As far as reliability goes, they're much more reliable than php.net :) Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/