Re: [PHP-DOC] random observations on online PHP manual

2010-03-23 Thread Daniel Convissor
Hi: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 01:17:25PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > centos/RHEL, PHP 5.3-related packages are extremely easy to come by. > it may be that you have to look for the generally-approved repos (in > this case, http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/5/, among others), > but they

Re: [PHP-DOC] random observations on online PHP manual

2010-03-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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 resort only. virtually ever

Re: [PHP-DOC] random observations on online PHP manual

2010-03-22 Thread Christopher Jones
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 resort only. virtually every OS these days should have PHP and related packages ready

Re: [PHP-DOC] random observations on online PHP manual

2010-03-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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 very first section, "how can y

Re: [PHP-DOC] random observations on online PHP manual

2010-03-22 Thread Richard Quadling
On 21 March 2010 14:15, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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 sys

Re: [PHP-DOC] random observations on online PHP manual

2010-03-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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. when i was starting >

Re: [PHP-DOC] random observations on online PHP manual

2010-03-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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* the state of XML support in PHP these

Re: [PHP-DOC] random observations on online PHP manual

2010-03-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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 *lot* of the PHP modules and extens

Re: [PHP-DOC] random observations on online PHP manual

2010-03-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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 fairly recent build of > > the d

Re: [PHP-DOC] random observations on online PHP manual

2010-03-20 Thread Philip Olson
On Mar 20, 2010, at 8:00 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > (my technical editor streak coming to the fore, representing just > some thoughts on reading up to but not including the language > reference so far.) > > * it's not clear what version of PHP the online manual refers to. i > would *gues

Re: [PHP-DOC] random observations on online PHP manual

2010-03-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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 "command", not "comment". rday -- ===

[PHP-DOC] random observations on online PHP manual

2010-03-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
(my technical editor streak coming to the fore, representing just some thoughts on reading up to but not including the language reference so far.) * it's not clear what version of PHP the online manual refers to. i would *guess* that it's the output of a fairly recent build of the doc trunk, b