Re: Regarding the ext/curl extension

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

Daniel, I don't really understand what renaming the extension would accomplish.

Then I didn't make myself clear. The point of renaming would be to allow people to search for something with a name that doesn't confuse them. If the binding would be called 'mombamoolo', they would search for that and they would certainly not be confused by products or projects called curl or libcurl (even if they would know that mombamoolo uses libcurl). Now they search for curl and libcurl instead, and they read the docs on our site, and yes some of them get angry or even hostile on us when they can't find enough details about PHP on our curl site. Then again, I did say I realize that a rename won't happen.

And the curl_setopt() page lists more than just the names of the options.

Hm, I stand corrected. I obviously haven't paying attention. I guess I was fooled by the "constants" page... Sorry, my bad. Still, this is a real problem to many PHP users of this extension. Like it or not... (and no, I don't suggest that name, it was picked randomly just to make my point)