A Suggestion for an International Community

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Gleeb
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A Suggestion for an International Community

Post by Gleeb »

As I'm sure you've all noticed, because you read the php.net news so very religously, there is a shorter, better way to link to info inside the PHP reference. It mostly deal with functions, but any unsuccesful 'links' cause a search.

For example, I could be reading something posted by a Frenchman, with very bad english, just enough to communicate his problem. It's obvious he'll have great problems dealing with http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.regex.php, but what if he wants to read that in French? Sure, he could click on the language selection thinger at the top, but in all fairness, it's his time and bandwidth being used up, as well as that of the php.net mirror.

Oh, and don't forget about Boris the Russian, Jan the Sapiard and Jurgen the Generalised European.

Why not just use http://www.php.net/regex? It's clean, simple, and it automatically detects your language settings.

Just a suggestion, but I think you'll agree it could be helpful :)
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Post by patrikG »

Good idea - I'll bear that in mind.

On the other hand, I should think anyone, no matter what their mothertongue is and how good their English is, would be able to read up on a particular PHP-function in their mothertongue with very little effort (.

Plus the user-notes (which tend to have solutions to the most common problems) are always in English, no matter which language-version of the PHP-manual you're looking up in.
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Post by []InTeR[] »

I think it's a great idee....

I will keep it in mind.
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Post by pootergeist »

that gave me the idea of pestering the dev-team to hack the phpBB and allow

[man]function name[/man] fast links

http://www.devnetwork.net/forums/viewto ... 9847#39847
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Post by Gleeb »

That's a great idea, it'd be pretty useful :)
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Post by volka »

you might even spare the www.
http://php.net/regex will do ;)

but e.g. the german translation still has some ..hmm.. gaps
http://www.php.net/manual/de/ref.oci8.php
ocicancel -- bricht das lesen von einem cursor ab
ocicollappend -- Coming soon
ocicollassign -- Kommt noch.
ocicollassignelem -- Kommt noch.
ocicollgetelem -- Kommt noch.
ocicollmax -- Kommt noch.
ocicollsize -- Kommt noch.
ocicolltrim -- Kommt noch.
ocicolumnisnull -- Testet eine Spalte ob deren Inhalt NULL ist
btw: Kommt noch does not exactly mean Coming soon, cut soon and you got it ;)
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Post by Gleeb »

Good ol' php.net

Now, not only can you just do, for example... http://php.net/sockets, but when you do so, it'll send you off to a mirror in your own country.

If you can think of ANY reason to not refer to the manual like this, I'd love to hear you ;)
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Post by m3mn0n »

I have always used this for refering to funcs. I never knew others where unaware or I would have posted it a long time ago.


+plus i did it to save writing time!

php.net/func is so much easier to write than... php.net/manual/en/ref.func.php :wink:
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