Hi Daniel, Many thanks to you as well. I really appreciate your effort in answering my queries guys. It means I'll do my best with books and the online manual. And today I've probably found the best resource. The community! Still, I jusy wonder how Jochem knew that the line is only executed the first time a function is called while this info is not available on the online manual. It's maybe all about how close you are to the community and how many degrees are between yourself and the source? I mean, I understand the manual is maintained by the community, but I suppose the language is developed by a small core of programmers that participate to the general discussion to some extent... I¹m just trying to figure out the shape of the landscape. I tend to start from the bigger picture before getting into details. :) Cheers In 4/3/08 16:00, Daniel Brown, parasane@xxxxxxxxx ha scritto > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Svevo Romano <svevo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The second question has to do with the online manual. I¹ve found several >> things on that manual specified in comments and not in the actual manual >> part of it. What is the nature of the manual? Contributions from voluteers? >> Is there any official manual I can buy that documents everything about the >> language from the source? Or any official company that maintains the >> language and that possibly offers support as well? > > We (the PHP community) maintain the manual through registered CVS > accounts. As Jochem said, php.net is the official manual - there is > no official manual to buy, and no way for a company to document > everything about the language. This is because, believe it or not, > the language changes multiple times per day, with added functionality > all the time. The best a company could do is document everything on a > specific version.... but by the time that task is complete, the > version documented would be obsolete. > > The comments are just posts by whomever feels like typing and > submitting. It's generally a "tips and tricks" sort of thing, and is > an excellent source, but an unofficial source.
