Re: [PHP-DOC] Fw: New part in manual? From: Rasmus Lerdorf (rasmus <email protected>)
Date: 07/03/00

> >Well, you picked the easy ones out, didn't you ;)
>
> Yes, he did pick the very easy ones. Some of those functions are already
> buried under a poorly named section, or are even poorly named
> themselves. It can be hard to find what you are looking for. Did you know
> that md5() is buried under the Strings section even though the only thing
> that ties itself to that section is that it just happens to return a
> string? I think the entire manual needs to be reworked... it's easy to
> find library functions, but not built-in stuff.

But isn't this what the quick-ref link does for you? If you know the
function you are looking for, it is 1 click away. If you don't know the
function you are looking for, you either need to browse by category, or
you can read through the alphabetical list that the quickref will give
you.

-Rasmus