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Back when I was doing PHP I loathed the docs for their vagueness and the overbearing wrongness of the comments (no, we're not going to tell you how to make thes
by patmcguire 14y ago
Back when I was doing PHP I loathed the docs for their vagueness and the overbearing wrongness of the comments (no, we're not going to tell you how to make these date handling fucntions work together, we're going to show something that involves subtracting or adding manually and leads to sadness.)
That said, I miss that they were SEO'd in the good sense. Most people are looking for the documentation are Googling it and every PHP function has its own page with the title the same as the function so you can generally count on the first result being the actual answer. This is opposed to Rails or Ruby in general, where you always get dumped into a blog post like "Basic Caching" because something in the middle of it kind of fits when you're looking for a very specific issue.
- beezee 14y agofunny it makes me wonder how much of "php is easy to get started with" actually translates to "php is correctly indexed by google"