Re: The Misc Questions FAQ page

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Chris Wright <daverandom@php.net> wrote: > While perusing some less travelled parts of the manual while checking some > facts for the PHP4 thread, I came across > http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.misc.php - should it really be > there? > > The pass-by-ref question is answered by > http://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.arguments.php > > The bz2 question doesn't seem that relevant to the PHP manual specifically, > and I know I personally would have found that information from other > sources > on the internet long before I came across our FAQ page. > > The register_globals question is pretty comprehensively covered by > http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.globals.php > > I'm open to persuasion, but to me it just looks like some unnecessary > duplicated/irrelevant content that's hard to find and therefore it's > unlikely > to help anyone. > > Thoughts? > > Most FAQ were written over 10 years ago, this one started its life 12 years ago talking about the yellow popups, with minor changes and additions over the next few years.. These days, we don't write FAQ anymore.. They are either inline in the reference sections or people just google their questions. Killing it seems fine to me. -Hannes