> On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
>
> > I would merge "string/character" and "Variables,types and function
> > handling", and name it:
> > "basic functions", since they are very general-purpose, do NOT have
external
> > depencies (like mysql, etc), and are quite close to the language.
> > Error-handling, program execution are also good candidates for "basic
> > functions", along with probably others?
>
> That's quite a relevant way too to categorize sections. My problem is that
> I actually haven't any kind of opinion, I could argue for both
> alternatives...
There are simply multiple ways of doing this, and there's no real rule to do
the one or the other...
I think that at least all functions which are basic (i.e. no extension like
pspell, a database, xml, or something, but simply work with strings and
numbers without being very specific) should be in the first (or the first
few, if they can be split up) sections.
I don't think that that category will be too large then... Databases is
bigger, but that's really because of a design-lack in PHP: it should have
been all different functions...
> I might go to a local bookstore next week and check some PHP books from
> different publishers. If there's some common categories under which some
> function groups seem to always fall, it could be because publishers may
> have done some research on how to present information the most clear way.
Good idea, I must admid I have no single book about PHP, nor ever read
one...
--jeroen
>
> -- Jouni
>
>
