Re: cvs: phpweb / index.php

Great, I'm all for a redesign like that. -Andrei On Aug 28, 2006, at 5:28 AM, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:

Yes, you are right. But how many PHP related books are released a year? Are they worse then this one? Or why is this standing out? Why don't we announce every new book? What should I tell to the next ten publishers who will cite this annuncement that we should announce their book? I thought about making the php.net homepage more informational, giving you better directions to download the latest versions, direct you to the support options, etc. We have said that filling up the homepage with event announcements only is not an ideal situation. Annonuncing books too is not solving the issue. We actually discussed removing the books page from php.net, since there are so many books, and noone is taking care of updating that page and removing stone age items (this is why the scripts page was removed earlier). It would be best to couple the php.net homepage refreshement with a CSS based layout cleanup (which is long overdue). Many of the php.net pages rely on a CSS based layout now already. Gabor On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Andrei Zmievski wrote:

Have you also been discussing how to make the front page a bit more useful? Treating it like a blog is wasting a lot of screen space.. -Andrei On Aug 27, 2006, at 5:30 AM, Damien Seguy wrote:

Le 06-08-26 à 14:54, Andrei Zmievski a écrit :

What exactly is wrong with it if it provides relevant info?

I just imagine every editor to show up and request a mention on this page too. It have nothing to do against this book. We're discussing the end of the book pages on php.net, and I was surprised to see the book pop up on the front page. Damien Seguy.

-Andrei On Aug 26, 2006, at 4:27 AM, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:

Hi, Is this the result of some discussion? It is certainly not our practice (and is not going to be it) to inform users of any new book releases. Gabor On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Andrei Zmievski wrote:

andrei Thu Aug 24 16:08:12 2006 UTC Modified files: /phpweb index.php Log: Note about MRE 3rd edition. http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/phpweb/index.php? r1=1.801&r2=1.802&diff_format=u Index: phpweb/index.php diff -u phpweb/index.php:1.801 phpweb/index.php:1.802 --- phpweb/index.php:1.801 Thu Aug 24 15:10:21 2006 +++ phpweb/index.php Thu Aug 24 16:08:12 2006 @@ -148,6 +148,19 @@ // DO NOT REMOVE THIS COMMENT (the RSS parser is dependant on it) ?> +<?php news_image("http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ 0596528124/wwwphpnet", "mre3cover_sm.jpg", "Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd edition"); ?> +<h1><i>Mastering Regular Expressions</i> - now with PHP coverage</h1> + +<p> + <span class="newsdate">[24-Aug-2006]</span> + The third edition of + <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596528124/ wwwphpnet">Mastering Regular Expressions</a> + is finally out and includes a full 48-page chapter on PHP. This is an excellent + resource from Jeffrey Friedl who has been writing about regexps for years. +</p> + +<hr /> + <h1>PHP 5.1.6 Released</h1> <p> <span class="newsdate">[24-Aug-2006]</span>