Hi, New poster, no need to flame unnecessarily...
Following up on James' original posting, I took 2000 or so message headers from the archive and extracted (Perl, sorry) keywords for about 50% of the postings. This gave the following metrics on problems: 13 table 65 apache 70 array 17 authentication 19 browser 13 cgi 39 cookie 35 database 9 dates 2 debug 9 editor 7 eval 6 fields 140 file 25 include 33 install 9 ip address 14 javascript 4 jpg 15 ldap 12 login 91 mail 146 mysql 11 oracle 20 pdf 2 PostgreSQL 15 Regex 7 rpm 8 security 93 session 11 socket 50 upload 29 variables 14 while 7 win32 37 xml 10 xsl It seems like the hotspots are: Database / Mysql File handling Apache Arrays XML When James and I talked off list, he recommended: >>You're probably also going to be dealing with global built in vars, $_SESSION, $_POST, $_GET and older vars quite a bit as well. I'm willing to grovel through old messages and write this up. If anyone has any other common topics that I'm not finding, please email them to me. When its done, and useful, we can see about getting it auto posted (which is a _good_ idea). Thanks Scott J. Scott Johnson Virtual: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.fuzzygroup.com/ Yahoo IM: fuzzygroup -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Stone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] FAQ Too often novices are expected to know how to find this information by mental telepathy because they either don't know the keywords to search for or don't realize that certain common resources exist. If the list administrators would simply compile a short email containing FAQ and RESOURCE links then have the system send it to php-general once a week, then they could reduce a great deal of these repetitious questions. IMHO, of course. -Kevin -----Original Message----- From: James Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:25 PM To: Rasmus Lerdorf Cc: PHP List Subject: Re: [PHP] FAQ The PHP FAQ isn't really specific when it comes to most problems. The 'code' section has like 10 questions, the rest of the FAQ is mainly how to download/compile, what do these PHP errors mean, migration, etc. A FAQ that had answers to questions that people ask on this list on a frequent basis would be more helpful. On Friday 22 March 2002 12:05 pm, you wrote: > I just don't see what the difference is. This is a PHP mailing list which > supposedly gets questions about PHP. Why would the PHP FAQ not be the > right place for this? > > -Rasmus > > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, James Taylor wrote: > > You are correct sir. The purpose of the FAQ would be so that, like I > > said, similar questions that pop up say, once a week, could be answered > > in the FAQ instead of on the list - That way I won't get 300 messages a > > day :) > > > > On Friday 22 March 2002 11:36 am, you wrote: > > > Despite what Rasmus just said, I think that you are saying a PHP > > > Mailing List faq based on the q's that the mailing list gets, not the > > > general PHP faq. > > > > > > Scott > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: James Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:30 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: [PHP] FAQ > > > > > > > > > Has anyone given any thought to possibly maintaining a FAQ containing > > > the answers to the most commonly asked PHP questions on this list? I > > > notice duplicates roll through every couple of days, and it would > > > probably be a really nice PHP resource. > > > > > > Or, does one already exist? Ha. > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
