At 10:03 14.08.2002, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
>Hi,
>On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 05:26:17PM +0200, Marcus Börger wrote:
> > At 17:05 13.08.2002, Dan Kalowsky wrote:
> > >On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Marcus [iso-8859-1] Börger wrote:
> > >
> > > > >2) Can we please remove the 
> "http://www.php.net/manual/en/blahblahblah";
> > > > >style of use for this?  It will tend to force users into one 
> language or
> > > > >another, and not make PHP as friendly/usable to other languages.
> > > >
> > > > NO! First you can simply set docref_root in your ini to point to 
> your local
> > > > copy of the manual in whatever language and Second it is a problem of
> > > > the php website. It should automatically redirect from
> > > > php.net/function.<functionname>
> > > > to php.net/manual/<yourlanguage>/<functionname>.php
> > >
> > >I'm not sure I see the point still.  What I'm proposing is not allowing:
> > >
> > >php_error_docref("http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen"; TSRMLS_CC,
> > >E_WARNING, "Spongebob Square Pants rules");
> >
> > The point is to be able to direct to external sites not on php.net! For
> > example
> > when a function is just a wrapper around a library then you can use the
> > absolute
> > form of the docref parameter ("http://<site>") to point to the library's
> > website.
>
>if the PHP function is 'just a wrapper' the manual (at least should) contain
>a link to external documentation (if available). I see nothing wrong with
>limiting linking just to <mirror>.php.net

Then there is only the last argument not spoken about yet:
Externally developed extensions.

marcus


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