ID: 19640 Comment by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: Bogus Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: ALL PHP Version: 4.2.3 New Comment:
My point was totally lost. I will try again: I cannot find good tutorials that may include a particular function because everyone and his mother is mirroring the documentation for that particular function. It would not be overly difficult to remind mirror maintainers that googlebot needs not crawl thier mirror. Its not like it really matters now, I've all but given up on php anyways. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-09-28 06:41:32] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It would be a good idea to visit one of the many php-tutorial sites/script download sites (e.g. HotScripts.com). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-09-28 04:54:41] [EMAIL PROTECTED] First of all, we cannot correct this. Second think about PHP codes. If you would like to find HTML pages using the lenght JS property, would you search for ":.length" in google. No. Because JS content is not indexed. The same stands for PHP codes. As far as I see approximately 95% of PHP code available on the net is distributed in compressed files, or only available after authentication (phpclasses for example). So searching for a function name, counting on google to return PHP source code results is quite bad direction. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-09-27 15:33:44] [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I try to find others' examples of a particular function by searching google for that function, I get HUNDREDS of pages that are nothing more than mirrors of the documentation, which I have ALREADY READ (its the first place I go when I need help with a function). This just plain sucks. I appreciate having faster places to read the documentation, but for christs sake, sometimes I just want to look at others' code because thats how I learn. I know soneone is going to get angry and say this is not a bug, but to me, its an annoyance of such proportion that it should be considered a bug. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ask doc-mirrors to not allow googlebot to crawl thier mirror as it's extremely frustrating. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=19640&edit=1 -- PHP Documentation Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
