#35299 [Bgs]: Missing <TT CLASS="constant"> tags in ref.pcre.html

ID: 35299 User updated by: leonard-php-bugzilla at ottolander dot nl Reported By: leonard-php-bugzilla at ottolander dot nl Status: Bogus Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: irrelevant PHP Version: Irrelevant New Comment: Please ignore that last remark ;) . That page actually does have a pointer to the anonymous CVS account name. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-11-20 16:09:24] leonard-php-bugzilla at ottolander dot nl I was already wondering what to create patches against. It seems a bit silly to supply patches against the html pages if these pages are generated from another source (XML). What username Wshould I use to do anonymous checkouts? anoncvs, anon, anonymous, nobody, all don't seem to work. Sadly this is not mentioned at http://doc.php.net/php/dochowto/chapter-cvs.php . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-11-20 11:02:27] goba@php.net And Leonard, you will probably also find out that generating your files from the XML sources of the documentation is a much better idea, as it done by the phpedit.net team for example. Look at: http://www.waterproof.fr/products/PHPEdit/download.php (PHP Functions definition files maker) It works from our XML sources. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-11-20 01:47:31] tony2001@php.net Of course your help would be appreciated. Read here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/about.howtohelp.php and here http://doc.php.net/php/dochowto/ about that. Yes, I guess it'd be good to have all the docs consistent, so feel free to send your patches to the phpdoc@lists.php.net mailing list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-11-20 01:36:03] leonard-php-bugzilla at ottolander dot nl Well, it would be convenient for such purposes as I described. Indeed I see more inconsistencies: ref.tidy.html is ugly as it tags some pseudo constants but not most of the real ones. What's the use of the <TT CLASS="constant"> tag in some pages if it's not used consistently and you don't even want to make an effort to implement this consistently? Who maintains these documentation pages anyway? Can I help? Maybe the consistent use of these tags should be promoted? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-11-20 01:24:34] tony2001@php.net From what I can see, there are lots of constants that are documented in such way. Look for example at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php and http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.network.php . I agree, this is a small incosistency, but this is definitely not a bug, since noone and nowhere told you that all constants will be enclosed with <constant></constant> tag. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/35299 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=35299&edit=1