The new search thing on php.net
| From: | Michael Hopkins | Date: | Sat, 07 Jun 2003 07:00:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | The new search thing on php.net | ||
| Groups: | php.mirrors | ||
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Hello,
I've noticed you've been integrating Google for searches instead of the
internal PHP stuff... However I'm not sure if this is a good thing.
Doing a search in the function list for 'extract' tries to go to
http://www.google.com/search?q=manual%2Fen%2Ffunction.extract.php+site:w
ww.php.net&l=en - which returns nothing. Very frustrating! In this
instance, Google should not have been searched, as it already knows that
extract is an exact match.
I've also noticed that it tries to fill in the search box with stuff
you've typed in before, and this is truly nasty as it only populates
once the page has finished loading - by which time I've usually started
to type something *else* in there. It hijacks what I've been typing and
replaces it! Or I end up with some unholy marriage of the two terms... I
think this Javascript feature frustrates me more than anything else,
because it's highly unlikely that I'll be searching for the same term
when I next return to the PHP docs for reference...
I'm sorry that my email has to be about problems encountered, though
rest assured that I do indeed appreciate all the hard work you guys put
into the website. Good luck with your future projects!
Regards,
Mike