Well if this gives you motivation, let me ditto his comments. The validation, the binding and unbinding, the global functions (will some of these have to be removed now? I noticed a 61?? revision where all the am's where removed), the form helper....
They've all been great to me...I've printed out sections of this and these are currently my guide. ThanX and keep up the good work. -- Baz L Web Development 2.0 http://WebDevelopment2.com/ On Dec 17, 2007 4:12 PM, John David Anderson (_psychic_) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 17, 2007, at 12:22 PM, Jon Miller wrote: > > > > > On Dec 17, 2007 3:30 PM, John David Anderson (_psychic_) > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I'm also tiring of people crying about the docs. Right now, we have > >> 170 completely rewritten printed pages of documentation for code that > >> isn't even BETA. > > > > I've been struggling with Cake and yesterday found the tempdocs for > > 1.2 and it was like a lightbulb - they're brilliant, even if > > incomplete. Unlike the dreadfully sparse manual or API, they give real > > examples, just like the PHP.net docs. > > Comments like that are what allows me to keep working on the docs. > Thanks. > > Yes, it's a complete rewrite with more emphasis on the high-level and > with more examples. It's incomplete, but that's not so bad for pre- > beta docs. We're closing in on things though. Please contact me if > you'd like to help out. > > > Unfortunately the existence of the docs is a bit of a secret. Despite > > having a big link to download 1.2 on the Cake homepage, there's no > > obvious link to the new docs on the Cake homepage, just to the old > > Cake manual. Sure it may not look as flashy, but if it has the info, > > who cares? It makes me wonder how many newbies are struggling just > > because they don't even know a secret new manual exists? In my view > > hiding the good docs away could really hurt takeup now that most > > people will be jumping straight to 1.2 > > True. I've added the link to the default CakePHP home.ctp - I hesitate > to link to it too much because of it's temporary nature, but it's no > secret (we've linked to it in announcements, etc.). Tell your > friends. :) > > -- John > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
