ID: 41990
Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reported By: mbread at m-bread dot com
Status: Closed
Bug Type: Documentation problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant
New Comment:
@tularis: No, your English grammar is faulty. Output has long been a
valid verb in the computing world (going back at least 30 years to my
personal knowledge), so "put out" could never be a correct formation
here. You are also wrong about "outputted" being correct: since
"output" is a compound verb based on "to put", and the past participle
of "put" is "put" (not "putted"), the past participle of "output" as
used in this sentence, should also be "output".
Previous Comments:
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[2007-07-13 14:45:36] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the
online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time
to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient.
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation
better.
Neither outputed nor outputted are correct according to the English
grammar rules, it should be called "put out". However, with the
popularity of the verb "to output" it seems to be showing up in
dictionaries as a correct english word, thus following grammar rules it
should indeed be written as "outputted".
I've modified all image-outputting function descriptions to match your
suggestion.
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[2007-07-13 12:11:13] mbread at m-bread dot com
Description:
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On the documentation page for imagejpeg, it has the following
description for the $filename parameter:
--
filename
The path to the saved file. If not set or NULL, the raw image
stream will be outputed directly.
To skip this argument in order to provide the quality parameter,
use NULL.
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The sentence "The path to the saved file" sounds as if it is to load a
previously-saved image from that path, then display it. From
user-submitted notes it appears that it actually saves the image to that
file (which would make more sense). In which case it should say "The
path to save the file to" or something similar. "Saved" should not be in
the past tense.
(Also, my browser spell checker says that "outputed" should be spelt
"outputted".)
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