On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Kris Craig <kris.cr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just noticed something that I hadn't really thought about before. I > couldn't remember the name of the function for parsing INI files so I did a > quick search. It took me straight to the page for php.ini directives. I > had to select "online documentation" from the dropdown and try again, this > time navigating down to the third result. > > Not overly cumbersome, of course, but I started thinking that maybe this > could be more difficult for someone who might be newer to PHP. I also > tried a Google search for 'php ini' (no quotes) to see what I'd get, and > the first 15 results (all of the first page and the top half of the second) > were for php.ini stuff. The 16th result was finally the parse_ini_file() > function. A lot of newbies in particular use Google as their first stop > when trying to find PHP functions for doing stuff, so this could give some > people the impression that PHP doesn't even have an INI parsing function. > > > Of course, most of this we really have no control over, but I would like to > propose adding a link to parse_ini_file() on the php.ini man pages (perhaps > something along the lines of, "Are you looking for....?"). I can make the > edits myself but I'd like to see what y'all think first. >
I don't understand why on earth your are mailing the PHP *internal developer mailinglist* with this matter? If you have any improvement suggestions for the documentations: https://edit.php.net -Hannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
