Re: [PHP-DEV] new php.net shortcuts

[Gabor Hojtsy]

> > > On a related note, www.php.net needs a nasty popup 
> > > that says "Choose a mirror!!!" ;)
> > 
> > This is for a long time on our TODO list. Actually
> > a nice automatic mirror chooser, and advice box
> > would be good, and not an annoying popup box IMHO.
> 
> This will be a nice system.  Btw, was kidding about 
> the popup, sometimes I wonder if anyone gets me :)
> Point is, the fear this will bog down www. even more.

ALL the shortcut things work on anymirror.php.net.
If all these shortcut types go working, I think
we'll need a php.net/shortcuts page for description
of what type shortcuts exists, and how to use them.

Many people even don't know, that

http://php.net/hu/echo will give the Hungarian echo page, as
http://hu.php.net/echo but http://hu.php.net/en/echo
gives the English one ;) This works for a very long
time now, but seems to be an undocumented feature...

So I think we'll need an explanatory page for this
up on the site...

Goba



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Re: [PHP-DEV] new php.net shortcuts

[Philip Olson]

> I would like to start with a basic list though
> to put up as an announcement, and prove that
> this simple thing works too...

Sounds good.  But, start archiving now and in a few 
months enough data will exist to make some useful 
decisions.

> > On a related note, www.php.net needs a nasty popup 
> > that says "Choose a mirror!!!" ;)
> 
> This is for a long time on our TODO list. Actually
> a nice automatic mirror chooser, and advice box
> would be good, and not an annoying popup box IMHO.

This will be a nice system.  Btw, was kidding about 
the popup, sometimes I wonder if anyone gets me :)
Point is, the fear this will bog down www. even more.

Regards,
Philip Olson



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Re: [PHP-DEV] new php.net shortcuts

[Gabor Hojtsy]

> > $CUSTOM_SHORTCUTS = array (
> >   'ini' => 'configuration',
> >   'windows' => 'install.windows',
> >   'install' => 'installation'
> 
> How about starting an archive of terms posted into 
> the php.net search box.  This will make for some 
> good data which will eventually provide info to 
> expand this feature.

I think I'll also post this question to the
php-general list, where most of the support
people providing answers can come up with a
common list of keywords. Then we can see if
those keywords are already working (php.net
pages | manual pages), or they should be added
to this list.

I would like to start with a basic list though
to put up as an announcement, and prove that
this simple thing works too...

> On a related note, www.php.net needs a nasty popup 
> that says "Choose a mirror!!!" ;)

This is for a long time on our TODO list. Actually
a nice automatic mirror chooser, and advice box
would be good, and not an annoying popup box IMHO.

Goba



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Re: [PHP-DEV] new php.net shortcuts

[Philip Olson]

> $CUSTOM_SHORTCUTS = array (
>   'ini' => 'configuration',
>   'windows' => 'install.windows',
>   'install' => 'installation'

How about starting an archive of terms posted into 
the php.net search box.  This will make for some 
good data which will eventually provide info to 
expand this feature.

On a related note, www.php.net needs a nasty popup 
that says "Choose a mirror!!!" ;)

Regards,
Philip Olson


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[PHP-DEV] new php.net shortcuts

[Gabor Hojtsy]

Hi!

As all you know, we have php.net shortcuts for manual
pages, so php.net/exit go to the exit() function page,
etc.

As one of the php.net webmasters I realized, that we
also give php.net webpage addresses so often to people
like php.net/downloads.php, php.net/links.php or
php.net/support.php.

This is why I made this a part of the shortcut system,
so access to pages withouht the PHP extensions is available
now.

  Try: http://php.net/support or http://php.net/links for examples.

This access is higher priority than functions, but AFAIK
we have no pages named the same any function, so this would
not be a problem.

This improvement would also help php-general support
people to be able to type less while giving answers
to questions.

One more thing came into our mind is to introduce a
shortcut table for often tried shortcuts, like

 php.net/ini php.net/windows php.net/install

While the last one seems obvious to work, actually
only php.net/installation works. This would be only
simple translation table for keyword to keywords,
so it should work for any language manual:

$CUSTOM_SHORTCUTS = array (
  'ini' => 'configuration',
  'windows' => 'install.windows',
  'install' => 'installation'
...
);

By using this shortcut list ("short shortcut"
to "long shortcut"), language preferences wont
lose their effects, so hu.php.net/ini will bring
up the Hungarian ini page.

I am waiting for suggestions about what shortcuts would
be useful, and I'll add all these to the shortcut handling
code.

All these changes are to make support people's
life (typing requirements) easier, and to let
people find pages with some common shortcuts not
used in the manual, nor as manual page ids.

Goba



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