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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:27:12 +0100
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To: Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Docs: php.ini vs. parse_ini_file()
From: ajfweb@googlemail.com (Andrew Faulds)

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Sounds good, search engines aren't always super smart.
On Jul 18, 2012 1:20 AM, "Kris Craig" <kris.craig@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
>

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