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Doc Bug #22804 Session page in the manual should not refer to PHPLIB
Submitted: 2003-03-20 07:18 UTC Modified: 2003-04-26 00:18 UTC
From: simon at incutio dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 4.3.1 OS:
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-03-20 07:18 UTC] simon at incutio dot com 
The sessions page of the PHP manual compares PHP's session handling to the session features built in to PHPLib:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php

While this may have been relevant a few years ago when PHPLib was in wide spread use, these days PHPLib is hardly used and the comparison could prove confusing to new users. I suggest removing the mention of PHPLib from the description of PHP's session support.

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 [2003-03-28 16:04 UTC] Nitsch at telus dot net 
Printout of your ppphpbb 2.0 Users Guide.
First of all the page numbers are useless! 5 to 11 for over 45 pages??? 
Second the contents are dismal missing reference to numerous features. Like Oldest first, Newest first etc. etc.
there is a general absence of explanations as to what can and can not be modified and set to "default" function. If anything Newest first woild make a lot more sense than Oldest first. Who want's to look at old stuff. Unless you are masochistically inclined.
The same goes for "All posts".
Hope this isn't going into the proverbial 'Black hole in the universe'.
But then nothing would surprise me on the phpbb
 [2003-03-28 17:51 UTC] philip@php.net 
Nitsch, welcome to your black hole.  This bug database is for the language PHP and not some third party script that happens to be written in PHP.

Regarding your report, how about learning what open source means before utilizing it.  How much did you pay for that software?  $0.00.  So you found a bug, great, here are some more appropriate options:

a) Submit the bug to the proper authorities in a useful
   manner (ex. without the baggage).
b) Submit a patch (fix it for the benefit of all users,
   including yourself).
c) Don't submit anything at all.
 [2003-03-28 18:22 UTC] philip@php.net 
Here's the second paragraph of ref.session:

  If you are familiar with the session management of
  PHPLIB, you will notice that some concepts are 
  similar to PHP's session support.

Seems we have ~three options:

A) Leave it alone

B) Create a faq in faq.migration4 that mentions native session support exists as of php4, and that phplib did offer session support in php3 (it still does too :).
  phplib : http://phplib.sourceforge.net/

C) Delete it.

If worded correctly I prefer (B) because history is good and it's appropriate, (C) is fine too as there are many applications that offer non-native session support.
 [2003-04-26 00:18 UTC] philip@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS, thank you for the report:

http://cvs.php.net/cvs.php/phpdoc/en/faq/migration4.xml
http://cvs.php.net/cvs.php/phpdoc/en/reference/session/reference.xml

I chose a mix of (b) and (c) :)
 
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