Re: 2 Questions: Static variables and the nature of the online manual

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Svevo Romano <svevo@svevoromano.it> wrote: > The second question has to do with the online manual. I¹ve found several > things on that manual specified in comments and not in the actual manual > part of it. What is the nature of the manual? Contributions from voluteers? > Is there any official manual I can buy that documents everything about the > language from the source? Or any official company that maintains the > language and that possibly offers support as well? We (the PHP community) maintain the manual through registered CVS accounts. As Jochem said, php.net is the official manual - there is no official manual to buy, and no way for a company to document everything about the language. This is because, believe it or not, the language changes multiple times per day, with added functionality all the time. The best a company could do is document everything on a specific version.... but by the time that task is complete, the version documented would be obsolete. The comments are just posts by whomever feels like typing and submitting. It's generally a "tips and tricks" sort of thing, and is an excellent source, but an unofficial source. -- </Dan> Daniel P. Brown Senior Unix Geek <? while(1) { $me = $mind--; sleep(86400); } ?>