On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 04:20:31PM -0200, Manuel Lemos wrote:
> On 21-May-00 05:38:24, you wrote:
>
> >> - Final releases are done and many new features are not documented. What
> >> is the point of announcing cool features like Shockwave Flash support but
> >> users can not find any documentation to use it? This makes the developers
> >> look like hackers or just amateurs.
>
> >Which new user needs Shockwave Flash support? The same goes with COM
> >support. It was never documented in the manual. COM was present since the
> >beginng of PHP 3. Users who needs COM support reads the source code.
>
> That was an unfortunate comparision. I know what is COM but most people
> don't. As for Shockwave Flash, even designers know what it is.
>
> Dynamic generation for Shockwave Flash output, like there is for GIF and
> PDF, will certainly be a killing feature that many PHP enthusiasts will
> use in PHP vs. the world arguments. That is precisely the problem.
> Picture this situation some time soon in a IT department next to you:
>
> Joe Webby, a paid Web developer rushes into his boss office:
>
> - Hey boss, look, PHP 4 final is out and guess what: it is capable of
> generating Shockwave Flash output dynamically!
>
> - Really? I don't believe that. It's too good to be true for some free
> Web programming language. Show it to me, I want to see some examples.
>
> - Hold on, I am going to find a sample page to show you.
>
> Joe Webby gets back to his desk trying to find some cool examples. An half
> an hour after he returns to the boss office.
I know I know. Forgive me my unconventional answer. But I think (or will
dreaming) you will bring up something like an Till Eugenspiegel.
I am one of the people who wouldn'nt jump in the office of my boss, and
say PHP 4 is now capable of generating Shockwave Flash output
dynamically.
Actually I have said nothing to my boss. I have instead read the READMEs
and printed out the API which is mentioned in the READMEs. It would be an
very easy task to document it in the manual.
All Flash functions have an function prototype, which will tell such
newbies a lot. Most things can be found in the source code. Just read it.
-Egon
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