Re: Function aliases in the manual

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:29:50AM +0200, Damien Seguy wrote: > > Would is possible to allow function aliases to be added to the > > PHP manual? > > > > This would allow us to maintain backwards compatibility in the > > manual for functions that have been renamed. Ideally, this would > > work for searching, too. > > That seemed a good idea to me too, but we have to keep in mind that > showing old syntax will make users use it, and that's not what we > want too. I didn't really plan on showing the old syntax. I meant we should have a little "Formerly know as:" line, perhaps under the PHP version information. > May be, we could set up an appendix for this? Or, set up a special > paragraph at beginning of chapters (such as mysql) that holds old > syntax. That sounds like a good solution. -- Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu) . Rochester Inst. of Technology http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/ : Computer Science House Member