I would like to offer some help with the official docs. I'm not sure how much time i can put in because, like everyone else, i've got a crap-load on my plate already. But the docs do need some serious help. The presentation, for one, makes it difficult to find things. That, and the underlying generated markup is horrendous.
John: i don't at all mean to criticise; i fully understand the situation. I'm just pointing out a couple of areas that i think could use some improvement, since this thread is beginning to look like a sign-up sheet. Zoe: your guide is a huge addition! Maybe it can be folded into the official docs, or maybe it can become a companion guide. Perhaps some agreement about that can be reached, and might spur both projects forward. I agree with Baz & Zoe about not quite knowing whether the steps i'm taking are appropriate. With the new behaviors and whatnot, coupled with all of the novel ways people are coming up with to do things, it can be a bit dizzying trying to figure out just what is appropriate. Just yesterday, i spent ages going over Andy's Attachment behavior, trying to make sense of the (almost) comment-less code. The good thing is that I learned a great deal about Cake (and a couple of neat PHP tricks). And I realised that my brainwave to deal with uploads in the validation code was ... validated by others--more astute about Cake than I--who'd figured it out already. The best, though, was that, after finally judging that I had Andy's behavior figured out, I stumbled upon David Persson's wonderful (and wonderfully-packaged) Attachments Project[1], built upon a collection of others' cool ideas (including Andy's). Going through the source I suddenly had botha revelation for how Cake works (or, at least, should) and inspiration for how to resolve some long-standing problems with my project (well over and above those things that Cake has already addressed for me). My point being that good documentation--especially in the source--can help tremendously. [1] http://cakeforge.org/projects/attm/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
