a note i made to myself a while back when first going thru the
online PHP manual, so i thought i'd put it out there and let others
ignore it at their leisure.
i find the order of the two early sections -- "getting started" and
"installation and configuration" -- a bit backwards since th
Quoting "Robert P. J. Day" :
Quoting Daniel Brown :
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:47, Robert P. J. Day
wrote:
first part was cut and paste error, argh. and, yes, i embarrassed myself
as i was ssh'ed into the wrong test box which didn't even have the PHP
package
Quoting Daniel Brown :
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:47, Robert P. J. Day
wrote:
first part was cut and paste error, argh. and, yes, i embarrassed myself
as i was ssh'ed into the wrong test box which didn't even have the PHP
package installed. and that, people, is the danger o
Quoting Philip Olson :
On Apr 30, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
probably about to embarrass myself but i'm looking at the PHP
manual page "Your first PHP-enabled page", which suggests this as
an initial PHP program:
PHP Test
Hello World'; ?>
probably about to embarrass myself but i'm looking at the PHP
manual page "Your first PHP-enabled page", which suggests this as an
initial PHP program:
PHP Test
Hello World'; ?>
but if i enter, then browse to that page, i get as browser output:
=
hi world
'; ?>
=
comment should not suggest that they
*must* comment. and, more importantly, they should try to comment on
the appropriate page so that their comment makes sense.
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garbage, and incorporate
the reasonable comments into the documentation proper. just leaving
the comments there in perpetuity is, IMHO, a terrible idea.
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towards (d) for most cases. Thoughts?
call it "PHP NG", with a huge early disclaimer that you're not sure
what the number will be.
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age devoted to PHP 5:
http://www.openbsd.org/4.4_packages/powerpc/php5-core-5.2.6.tgz-contents.html
rday
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Linux Consulting, Training and K
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Christopher Jones wrote:
> On 03/22/2010 04:42 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >and regarding installation, i would *strongly* encourage
> > readers to install from packages if they can, leaving downloading
> > and building the source as a last
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Richard Quadling wrote:
> On 21 March 2010 14:15, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > i wasn't suggesting reproducing the entire command-line section.
> > i was more thinking along the lines of something early in the
> > installation section, maybe a ve
t/PhD_PHP > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? > 0 ] ; then
echo "You need to install the PEAR package PhD_PHP first, exiting."
exit
fi
... etc etc ...
=
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On Sun, 21 Mar 2010, Hannes Magnusson wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 14:27, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > a short report on the latest attempt to checkout and build the
> > manual from SVN. checkout worked fine, i installed phd, then ran
> > build.sh, severa
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010, Hannes Magnusson wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 14:27, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > a short report on the latest attempt to checkout and build the
> > manual from SVN. checkout worked fine, i installed phd, then ran
> > build.sh, severa
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Philip Olson wrote:
> On Mar 20, 2010, at 8:00 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > * very early on, i might be tempted to have a short section
> > explaining how readers can examine the current state of PHP on
> > their system, mostly from the command line.
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On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Philip Olson wrote:
> On Mar 20, 2010, at 8:00 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > "... extends the feature set adding SimpleXML and XMLReader support."
> >
> > - is there a reason to mention XMLReader but not XMLWriter? (what
> >*is*
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Philip Olson wrote:
> On Mar 20, 2010, at 8:00 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > * not sure if this is covered further into the manual than i've
> > read so far, but i learned quickly that on some versions of linux
> > (in my case, fedora), a *l
first short reply before i must dash for a bit ...
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Philip Olson wrote:
> On Mar 20, 2010, at 8:00 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > it's not clear what version of PHP the online manual refers to.
> > i would *guess* that it's the output of a fairl
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Philip Olson wrote:
>
> On Mar 20, 2010, at 9:04 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Philip Olson wrote:
> >
> >> The trouble with only downloading en/ (due to the incorrect svn
> >> checkout reference), you'
ild the
docs from the checkout.
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Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.
Web page: http://crashcourse.ca
Twitter:
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> - it might be worth telling the reader about "php --ini" here, and
> perhaps other ini-related php CLI options. i found the above
> comment really useful early on.
bah ... i meant the above "comman
hat they have a working
and properly-configured PHP setup.
* http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.file.php
- it might be worth telling the reader about "php --ini" here, and
perhaps other ini-related php CLI options. i found the above comment
really useful early on.
tions for how to simply generate the manual HTML?
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Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.
Web page: http://crashcourse
i
just need to know the proper recipe for submitting them here.
if there's a web page that explains that, all i need is the link.
thanks.
rday
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