Sounds good, search engines aren't always super smart. On Jul 18, 2012 1:20 AM, "Kris Craig" <kris.cr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just noticed something that I hadn't really thought about before. I > couldn't remember the name of the function for parsing INI files so I did a > quick search. It took me straight to the page for php.ini directives. I > had to select "online documentation" from the dropdown and try again, this > time navigating down to the third result. > > Not overly cumbersome, of course, but I started thinking that maybe this > could be more difficult for someone who might be newer to PHP. I also > tried a Google search for 'php ini' (no quotes) to see what I'd get, and > the first 15 results (all of the first page and the top half of the second) > were for php.ini stuff. The 16th result was finally the parse_ini_file() > function. A lot of newbies in particular use Google as their first stop > when trying to find PHP functions for doing stuff, so this could give some > people the impression that PHP doesn't even have an INI parsing function. > > > Of course, most of this we really have no control over, but I would like to > propose adding a link to parse_ini_file() on the php.ini man pages (perhaps > something along the lines of, "Are you looking for....?"). I can make the > edits myself but I'd like to see what y'all think first. > > --Kris >
