#19640 [Opn->Bgs]: Too many docs mirrors - Yes, I think it's a bug.

ID: 19640 Updated by: goba@php.net Reported By: bsdpunk@hi-techredneck.org -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: ALL PHP Version: 4.2.3 New Comment: First of all, we cannot correct this. Second think about PHP codes. If you would like to find HTML pages using the lenght JS property, would you search for ":.length" in google. No. Because JS content is not indexed. The same stands for PHP codes. As far as I see approximately 95% of PHP code available on the net is distributed in compressed files, or only available after authentication (phpclasses for example). So searching for a function name, counting on google to return PHP source code results is quite bad direction. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-09-27 15:33:44] bsdpunk@hi-techredneck.org If I try to find others' examples of a particular function by searching google for that function, I get HUNDREDS of pages that are nothing more than mirrors of the documentation, which I have ALREADY READ (its the first place I go when I need help with a function). This just plain sucks. I appreciate having faster places to read the documentation, but for christs sake, sometimes I just want to look at others' code because thats how I learn. I know soneone is going to get angry and say this is not a bug, but to me, its an annoyance of such proportion that it should be considered a bug. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ask doc-mirrors to not allow googlebot to crawl thier mirror as it's extremely frustrating. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=19640&edit=1