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And that’s important, because?
by Kwpolska 2y ago
And that’s important, because?
- mdp2021 2y agoSome infrastructures are supposed to have extremely high uptimes. Were this occasion frequent, you would not see these submissions.
- Kwpolska 2y agoI understand posting about outages of critical infrastructure (like us-east-1) or interactive websites. But this is a non-interactive website, whose only purpose is delivering text (PHP docs) and maybe some binaries. The few people working on PHP projects on a Sunday may not have access to the official docs for a while. But they can just hop onto the Wayback Machine and carry on with their work.
- mdp2021 2y agoFor the manual (of which, I insist, coders should have an offline copy - they have been available since forever and prudence dictates), there is a backup site, apparently, at https://docs.phplang.net/docs.php https://docs.phplang.net/docs.php For the purpose of the submission, I guess some people are puzzled ("What happened?").
- kyriakos 2y agophp.net runs the language's documentation. its not just a home page
- netsharc 2y agoWhen latency and pageload was in seconds instead of milliseconds, downloading the documentation as a Windows Help file improved my efficiency. This is a "kids these days" post. Maybe in a few years "The connection to the data center hosting the 1000 GPUs that run the LLM I ask how to do stuff is down, I can't get any work done!"
- kyriakos 2y agoI've been using PHP since 1999 and never downloaded the documentation locally.
- jeroenhd 2y agoThere's absolutely nothing preventing anyone from downloading the docs. However, search engines won't return results from your local .hlp files and there are plenty of cases where the comments underneath a manual page give context for edge cases that wasn't necessarily described in the docs. I personally rely on the local documentation in my IDE because I can't be bothered to continuously update my docs with the latest errata and additions.