Re: A Hacker's Guide - Obsolete

On 23.01.2020 at 13:07, Daniel Martín Spiridione wrote: > Hi interns. The official PHP.net documentation of the "PHP at the Core: A > Hacker's Guide" section (https://www.php.net/manual/en/internals2.php) is > obsolete. > > In that sense Python has good documentation to be extended in C / C ++. I > think this is also one of the reasons why there are libraries like NumPy > and others that have popularized Python for data science. > > I personally know that the project > http://www.phpinternalsbook.com exists. > While this book is not yet fully updated to PHP 7, the information it > provides is wonderful! > > I think the "A Hacker's Guide" documentation should clarify that it is > outdated and incomplete and at least reference the project > http://www.phpinternalsbook.com > > What do you think? I have suggested to remove this section from the manual and to replace it with a page linking to external documentation long ago, but see <https://news-web.php.net/php.doc/969386915>. Thanks, Christoph