Bug #9942 Updated: function proliferation making the online manual useless

ID: 9942 Updated by: danbeck Reported By: delme@jumeaux.bc.ca Old-Status: Open Status: Closed Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating system: PHP Version: 4.0.4pl1 Assigned To: Comments: These ideas have been bandied back and forth among the documentation people and although it's low priority, we are working at doing something about this in the future. Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2001-03-22 16:44:07] delme@jumeaux.bc.ca as a longtime php user who relies on the online manual, i just want to make sure someone's aware that the online manual is rapidly becoming unusable. one great thing about php is how it grows to handle just about *everything*... but the manual needs to put some restrictions on that. right now there are 80+ sections in the `features' part of the manual. this makes it well-nigh impossible to find what you're looking for. you need to divide these sections into several parts. my suggestion would be to have a section for `core' language features, and then one for additional, system- and package-specific functionality, like yp/nis, windows com, pdf, etc etc. due to the extreme proliferation of these package addons, perhaps that second section should be even further divided, though i'm not certain how. perhaps into OS-specific, file format-specific, and so on? thanks for your attention to this. -damon --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ATTENTION! Do NOT reply to this email! To reply, use the web interface found at http://bugs.php.net/?id=9942&edit=2