Re: Help re PHP date function and help website

On 04/08/2021 07:07, gordonisnz@gmail.com wrote:

Hello. I'm looking at the php date function. easy enough. https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php However Question:- where is the help page to tell us what all the various letters mean ? January (month in full) Jan (small month ) etc... i remember this from somewhere but i cant find it on the above page. The format character list is on https://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.format.php (DateTime(Immutable) and date() share the same list for output format)

This is linked to from the 'format' parameter description.

QUESTION: How do we ask / recommend that the page be amended ? -0 to add all the letters & meanings, or add a link to the page that tells us that ? There's a "Report a Bug" link at the top right of every manual page (under the language select drop-down) which takes you to the docs issue tracker. You can use this to suggest changes as well as reporting errors.

You can also submit a pull request with your suggested change. There's instructions for setting up a local copy of the manual in the doc-base repo readme: https://github.com/php/doc-base

Question- what are the letters for a full month, and big month ? ADMIN:- can the 'help' email command be added at the bottom of each message ? php-general-help@lists.php.net - took me 20 mins to find / try it,

With regards to help using the mailing list, you can find this on the php.net website by going to Get Involved => Mailing List (at the bottom under "Useful links for developers"), then the command help is at the bottom of the page. (I'm not a list admin or core developer, so can't make any modifications). You can use GitHub search to find the file to edit by searching for the function / method name or a piece of text on the page ("date" brings up a lot of results, but if you search for the function description "format a local time/date" instead, it's the ~5th result) It's possible a list admin might not see your suggestion here. I would suggest filing an issue at https://bugs.php.net/ (I don't think there's a category for mailing list issues, but if you file it under General Issues then one of the bug herders will make sure it gets assigned to the right people)