Ruslan, if you want to send me your suggested edits I can review them
and update the manual ( I created the original pages related to the
MSI based Windows installer ).
John Mertic
jmer...@gmail.com
On Sep 14, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Hannes Magnusson wrote:
Couple of "rules" :)
- Please do not top-post (makes the post hard to read)
- Always CC the mailinglist (phpdoc@lists.php.net)
- Preferably tell your mail client to wrap lines after ~80 chars
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 19:35, Ruslan Yakushev
<rusl...@microsoft.com> wrote:
Hi Hannes,
I have written and have been maintaining all the PHP related
documentation on http://php.iis.net/. I can help out with updating
the windows/IIS specific docs on php.net.
Here are some of the ideas I have about the updates. The following
are the existing topics under http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.php
that can be updated as well as new topics that can be added:
1. http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.installer.msi.php -
For this article it would be good to change the title to "Windows
Installer (Thread Safe PHP 5.2 and later)" and update the content
Sounds good. John (CCed) could probably help you out there (as the
author and maintainer of the installer).
2. Add new article "Windows Installer (Non Thread Safe PHP 5.2 and
later)"
I didn't know we had a non-thread-safe installer?
3. http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.manual.php - Update
the content
4. Remove this: http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.iis.php
5. Add "Microsoft IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0" - this will list manual
installation steps to configure IIS; similar to what is described
here: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/247/using-fastcgi-to-host-php-applications-on-iis-60/
Since the "What is FastCGI", "configuring FastCGI" and those sections
aren't specific to installing PHP on Windows and therefore shouldn't
be part of the Windows install guide. Its however a great idea to make
it its own generic section in the top-level-install guide.
As for the download section in the article, the notes and links to
zend platform are inappropriate for the manual
The phpBB sections are obviously out-of-scope for the PHP manual.
6. Add "Microsoft IIS 7.0 and later" - this will list manual
installation steps to configure IIS; similar to what is described
here: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/246/using-fastcgi-to-host-php-applications-on-iis-70/
Looks good. There is a slight information overlap with the previous
chapter. If you chunk it out into "best practices" (or something) and
cross link it.. I think that would be awesome.
What do you think? Do these make sense to you?
Sounds like a great plan.
I have couple of questions:
1. I can provide the content for the updates. Is it possible for me
to get an account to be able to check in the updated content?
Yes. Once you have "something to show for it" (i.e. patches) you can
request for an SVN access and documentation karma at
http://php.net/svn-php (make sure you read the page carefully,
especially the form questions).
2. If the content of the existing article is changed or removed,
what happens to all the user contributed notes for that article?
We have a system on master
(https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php) which can reallocate
them, modify and/or delete user notes. Everyone with php.net (SVN)
account has access to it.
-Hannes
