Re: my.php.net

--- Gabor Hojtsy <gabor@hojtsy.hu> wrote: > > Yeah, that was my intention. For people who's primary use of php.net is > the > > reference manual (like me) some of the language options are of little > value > > and cumbersome; I'm not learning new spoken/written languages very often. > > > Perhaps a special domain, http://ref.php.net could be > > implemented for > just > > such visitors? I'd have time and resources to donate if this was thought > > useful. > > Well, there is no need to overcomplicate anything. > http://php.net/manual > already points to what you are looking for (the manual in your > preferred language). And most of the experienced users by the way are > using the URL shortcuts to get into the manual and not the menu > (http://php.net/header for example). I don't really think what *new* > feature would you like to add? Well perhaps the issue really isn't in docs.php, but a more general one. I use the URL shortcuts extensively as well, plus searching using the onpage search form. Let's say, for instance, I don't use MySQL very much, but I know there's a function to get a result row, so I open the url: http://php.net/mysql_get_row dead end. OK, so I open another URL, http://php.net/mysql and I'm closer to where I need to be. Now let's say I'm looking for something a bit more obscure, so I use the onpage search input box, and enter 'reload' (just for argument's sake). Oops, it defaults to doing a function quickref search; no problem, I click the link to do a whole site search. Well ok, I have some results, but not really what I want, so I'd like to try the word 'refresh' instead. Hmm, neither my last search term is in the 'search for: ' box, nor is the type of search I did selected in the 'in the: ' drop-down menu. So I renter my new term, select how I want to search again and make the search. Great, ncurses_refresh was what I was after; but wait, the first four results are in languages I don't speak, yet I have a language preference set? I don't mean to be pedantic as php.net is one of the finest resources on the net. However, there have been some annoyances in search and navigation flow that with the advent of setting a cookie I would have hoped to be eliminated. I'm just playing Devil's Advocate in the hopes of streamlineing some of the idiosyncrancies I've found in using the site. Lastly, in getting a mirror of the site, I noticed that index.php spews a couple seemingly needless warnings. I've attached a patch that may be of use. Thanks all, H > > > Yes, regardless, I'm going to play around with a couple options for > docs.php. > > I checked out phpweb/ HEAD from CVS (about 10 minutes ago) and have it > > happily running as a mirror (http://php.newyorkphp.net:8080/) but can't > seem > > to locate any of the manuals. phpweb/manual/*langcode*/ are all empty, > and > > en/ doesn't exist at all. What am I missing? > > I still don't think that docs.php needs such an amendment... > > Goba > ===== Hans Zaunere President, New York PHP http://nyphp.org hans@nyphp.org