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

Yes, you are right and I use that all the time.. I guess, I was more
thinking of when I first started using php.. heck, I'm still finding
functions squirreled away in the manual every now and then. Now that I'm
familiar with it, it's not a problem. I think the library functions are
setup nicely.. it's just builtin stuff...

Daniel

At 12:47 PM 07/03/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> > >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