#39083 [WFx->Asn]: If index were sorted you could find stuff

ID:               39083
Updated by:       philip@php.net
Reported By:      jimc at math dot ucla dot edu
-Status:           Wont fix
+Status:           Assigned
Bug Type:         Documentation problem
Operating System: Linux (SuSE 10.1)
PHP Version:      Irrelevant
-Assigned To:
+Assigned To:      bjori
New Comment:

Hannes is working on this.


Previous Comments:
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[2007-08-17 15:57:55] vrana@php.net

That's why we have both extensions categorization and extensions index.
Index is preferred currently.

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[2006-10-11 04:29:15] jimc at math dot ucla dot edu

Excellent!  It would be great if you could get this into the regular
documentation.  The Function Reference section looks like it's
automatically generated, and the category grouping won't happen by
magic, but I don't know enough about docbook to help on this.

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[2006-10-08 20:50:44] philip@php.net

Have a look at:
http://php.net/extensions

There was talk of having something like this in the index (as you
propose) but I don't remember where we're at on that. How does it look
to you?

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[2006-10-08 20:12:06] jimc at math dot ucla dot edu

Description:
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This is a feature request: to organize the Function Reference section
of the index page into categories.  This actually refers to php-doc
version 5.0.3 copyright date 2005-01-13, which is the version in my
distro.  With 137 categories in alphabetical order, it's very hard to
even comprehend what's available, or to find something if you don't
already know what it's called.  I just spent an hour hand-editing the
index page into an order that seems semi-sane to me:
http://papyrus.math.ucla.edu/php-doc/index-jimc.html
I don't know how this could be made to happen automatically with
docbook, but don't the developers think that this page is a lot more
useable than the original one?



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