Re: PHP documentation has worsened due to change in front page--more clicks required to get at main content

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 04:47, Vip Malixi <vip_m@yahoo.com> wrote: > As a PHP instructor, one of the things I boast about with student's is PHP's > documentation. It was very clear, complete, well-written, well-structured and easy to use. But > recently, the new PHP documentation has had a turn for the worse. > > Before, on the main page, you can just do a search for "string" and immediately you > can find "string functions". Now, you have to first click on "Text Processing", > then click on "String Functions". > This change was necessary as it was getting impossible to find the various extensions. Having hundreds of extensions in the left menu just hides the ones you are actually looking for and you would never had clicked an extension you didn't know what was on forehand. Now on the other hand you click the type of extension you are looking for to solve your problem, and you get plesently surprised by extensions you didn't know existed which solve exactly your problem. The old extension listing (as noted at the top of http://php.net/funcref) is still available; http://php.net/extensions. I also recommend you look at the Tips&Tricks page (http://php.net/urlhowto) on how to quickly navigate to the page you want to find, even without clicking a single link. -Hannes