On 2012-08-22 19:45, Lester Caine wrote:
Personally I'm looking for a 'Official Userland Library' that provides
EXAMPLES of how to do operations rather than yet another downloadable
library.
This is also the sort of thing I would like to see. The examples within
the manual are written for exposition of the feature being described,
not for Best Practice in their workaday use.
One example of the difference just off the top of my head is that weekly
I see people asking about why they get "Undefined index" errors because
they didn't check that $_POST['foo'] existed before they tried to use
its value.
The page on external variables doesn't mention the fact that variables
that might not exist need to be checked first, and none of the examples
make such checks except for #4. (Nor should it have to, because the page
is about external variables specifically, and this fact is true of
variables in general - and _it_ is mentioned on the variable basics page).
>
There are a few such 'samples' in the manual, but the user added ones
tend to be messy, and finding them is rather hit and miss. I HAVE found
good samples, but getting back to them can be a problem.
>
User submission could be a source of examples, but any collection would
require curating to ensure quality and maintain currency.
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