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Doc Bug #69012 examples in echo documentation are misleading
Submitted: 2015-02-08 02:45 UTC Modified: 2019-02-12 16:16 UTC
From: teo8976 at gmail dot com Assigned: girgias (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Strings related
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 [2015-02-08 02:45 UTC] teo8976 at gmail dot com
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.echo
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Example #1 echo examples

Many of the examples (all except the first one, the 8th and 9th, and the last three) have nothing to do with echo itself but with how string literals work. Those examples would make perfect sense replacing 'echo' with '$somevar=' 

Putting those examples in the documentation for echo
a) bloats the documentation of one language construct with unrelated stuff
b) is misleading and ambiguous, potentially leading the reader to wrongly think that variable substitution in literal strings, or heredoc syntax, are somehow specific to echo, while they are not and can be used also without echo




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doc-fix-69012 (last revision 2019-01-20 17:55 UTC by girgias@php.net)

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 [2016-06-14 16:40 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Verified
 [2017-01-28 12:53 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Package: Documentation problem +Package: Strings related
 [2018-12-31 17:05 UTC] girgias@php.net
-Status: Verified +Status: Assigned -Assigned To: +Assigned To: girgias
 [2019-01-20 17:55 UTC] girgias@php.net
The following patch has been added/updated:

Patch Name: doc-fix-69012
Revision:   1548006922
URL:        https://bugs.php.net/patch-display.php?bug=69012&patch=doc-fix-69012&revision=1548006922
 [2019-02-12 16:16 UTC] cmb@php.net
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Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=346811
Log: Fix #69012: examples in echo documentation are misleading

Patch provided by girgias.
 [2019-02-12 16:16 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Closed
 [2019-02-12 16:16 UTC] cmb@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.
 [2019-02-18 16:41 UTC] salathe@php.net
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Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=doc/en.git;a=commit;h=3b37f838c7d9508a608f47a93256b6ce82ce1a25
Log: Fix #69012: examples in echo documentation are misleading
 [2019-02-19 20:22 UTC] salathe@php.net
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Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=doc/en.git;a=commit;h=98e8f4141d56ff35ef4a1e62c6ebe9739b0bc3a6
Log: Fix #69012: examples in echo documentation are misleading
 [2020-02-07 06:05 UTC] phpdocbot@php.net
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Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=doc/en.git;a=commit;h=ad34011f878d2914d1482e66b510c8a96873d2dd
Log: Fix #69012: examples in echo documentation are misleading
 
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