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Doc Bug #36769 Proposal: See also for Categorization of Function Reference in PHP manual
Submitted: 2006-03-17 10:57 UTC Modified: 2006-03-17 16:10 UTC
From: woecherl at mlcomputing dot de Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: - not relevant -
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 [2006-03-17 10:57 UTC] woecherl at mlcomputing dot de 
Description:
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In the PHP manual, section "VI. Function Reference" meanwhile is quite a little long. I would like to suggest to introduce subchapters for function groups, like "database", "basic" (i.e. string, variable etc. functions) and so on. A similiar categorization is already on the bug reporting page in the search dialog, the "category".
I know this might impose a little work on the guys who maintain the manual (and they are doing a great job!), but maybe they find this proposal useful and a little time to realize it.

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 [2006-03-17 11:39 UTC] RQuadling at GMail dot COM 
This is a good idea, but not all the current chapters will be able to be grouped.

id3, image and math are just 3 chapters which have no counterparts. So these would either need to go into a derogatory "Other" subchapter or remain as they are.

It makes sense to group database, encryption, compression (and others) chapters into subchapters as there are many chapters for each of these topics.
 [2006-03-17 13:03 UTC] vrana@php.net 
Take a look at http://www.php.net/manual/en/extensions.php .
 [2006-03-17 14:27 UTC] woecherl at mlcomputing dot de 
Ok, the "Extension Categorization" is about what I meant. Since it is not too obvious in the manual's huge main index I would like to suggest to set a link with text e.g. "(for categorized list see Appendix I.)" below the entry "Function Reference".
 [2006-03-17 16:10 UTC] vrana@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the
online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time
to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better.
 
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