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Author #39100 [NEW]: Preventing duplicate documentation
ewilde at gntrains dot com

2006-10-12, 7:00 pm

From: ewilde at gntrains dot com
Operating system:
PHP version: Irrelevant
PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem
Bug description: Preventing duplicate documentation

Description:
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I added a note to one of the documentation pages and then went on about my
business. The next day, I accidentally hit the back button in Mr. Browser
and ended up at the add page again. So, a second copy of the note got
added to the docs.

Might I suggest, that you run a checksum against submissions by users and
compare them with existing notes in your documentation. If the note is
from the same user and its checksum is identical, its a good bet its an
instant replay, not something new. MD5, for example has a pretty small
chance of a collision.

This would reduce the junk in the docs and/or eliminate the need for a
human to scrutinize the docs carefully for duplicates.

Also, I looked around for a way for me to delete the duplicate but I
didn't see one.


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Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39100&r=notwrong
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Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39100&r=submittedtwice
register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39100&r=globals
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