> My criticism is meant to be constructive: if PHP wants to be a business class, > production-grade application, it needs to be accessible and usable in the most > straightforward way possible. Further the deponent sayeth not.
Well, nobody has ever claimed that to be the goal for PHP. Most of us simply want a tool that works. We try hard to help others and we do a pretty good job documenting things for newbies, but in the end that will always take second place to actually building the tool for our own use. Like most open source components out there, it caters to those capable of helping themselves. Shrink-wrapped packaging and telephone support is not us. In your case you didn't understand the difference between an LDAP server and an LDAP client and which pieces you might need in order to build an LDAP client application. I don't think you should expect the PHP documentation to explain this to you. If it had to explain each and every thing PHP can talk to down to that level, it would be 10,000 pages long instead of the 2000 or so pages it is now. -Rasmus -- PHP Install Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
