#45006 [NEW]: Manual shows deprecated approach

From: florian dot ember at gmail dot com Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem Bug description: Manual shows deprecated approach Description: ------------ The manual page on substr() shows how to access string offsets without using substr(), but does this using braces rather than square array brackets. Reproduce code: --------------- http://php.net/function.substr, example #3 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45006&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45006&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45006&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45006&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45006&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45006&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45006&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45006&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45006&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45006&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45006&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45006&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45006&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45006&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45006&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45006&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45006&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45006&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45006&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45006&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45006&r=mysqlcfg