Re: Adding a more logical string slicing function to PHP

On 31 March 2011 17:50, Philip Olson <philip@roshambo.org> wrote: > > On Mar 31, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > >> Am 31.03.2011 17:52, schrieb Rasmus Lerdorf: >>> Argh! Everyone should be forced to learn a bit of C. Like many PHP >>> functions, the name and argument order is right out of libc. If you type >>> "man strstr" at your (non-Windows) prompt you get a nice little >>> description of what it does. >> >> And if you install pman you just do "pman strstr" and get PHP-specific >> documentation. > > Although I disagree that adding a C prerequisite to PHP ends this discussion, using pman is a > related topic which can be installed like so: > >  pear install doc.php.net/pman > > Then, simply 'pman in_array' or similar will open local php man pages in shell. > However, the pman files have not been updated for awhile so we'll look into this. Oh, guess we > should create a 'pman pman' too. > > Regards, > Philip Am I right in thinking pman and man is not for windows ... hmmm. Sounds like half a job to me! -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY P.S. It's TFI Friday and April 1st. Oh the joy!