Thank you for your reply however, the mentioned search box does not
appear anywhere in our browser. So, Derek it is a little difficult to
simply enter the search term and press enter. In fact the entire layout
of the site is pretty screwed up and it takes forever to load a single
page. We are also constantly receiving an unresponsive script error
message (interestingly referencing /js/search.js) I.E.:
A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding.
You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script
will complete.
Script: http://www.php.net/cached.php?t=1388140826&f=/js/search.js:87
If we continue the script it stops responding again, we wait 2-3 minutes
and the unresponsive error appears again. If we stop the script we
simply get the same 2-3 minute wait and the unresponsive script error on
the next page we load.
The site has become nearly useless to us. This is a real problem as we
are in the business of computer programing and rely heavily on PHP. We
did not have any of these issues in the past. Why fix what wasn't broken?
R. Leach
President / CEO
RALComputing INC.
I just did this:
1: go to http://php.net
2: type "explode" in the top right search box
3: arrive at http://uk1.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php
Can't be any simpler if you ask me!
cheers,
Derick
Sherif Ramadan wrote:
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 3:29 PM, ral <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello,
I for one really Hate the new format of php.net <http://php.net>.
In the old days when I wanted to look up the proper usage of a
function (or other code) I could go to php.net <http://php.net>
and on the main page type the function name into the search field
and instantly got links to the documentation I needed. Now after
clicking on several links I still have not found the information I
need. I am simply looking for the syntax of the explode command.
In the old days this was a simple task, now it is an arduous,
grueling journey through pages of useless links. The new format
simply sucks.
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Actually the search functionality for php.net <http://php.net> has
been significantly improved in the new version with autocomplete
available for all functions/classes/extensions in the manual. You get
instant autocomplete suggestions as you type in the search box. This
is an improvement from the old version, which did not offer this feature.
I will submit that searching for things like language constructs, or
dubious search phrases, which do not directly yield a
function/class/extension name as a result, may lead to a search page
of potential candidate function names.There will be the added option
of a full web-search (to the right-hand margin of the page), which
requires an extra step to get to the results.
However, this is not typically a problem for most people since much of
what you are searching for on php.net <http://php.net> is usually
searched using a function/class/method/extension name as the search
query. Most language constructs like
if,elseif,else,foreach,for,switch,echo,eval,etc.., and even some magic
variables like $php_errormsg, and many predefined constants should
also yield a direct result. This eliminates the extra step of first
arriving at a search result page and then forcing the user to chose a
link to the desired page in the manual. This was the old behavior.
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