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As I remember PHP docs from back in the days, they were mostly crap with the occasional comment that told you how they were crap.

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It's just you. PHP.net documentation was always better than the rest, easy to read, some simple examples and with helpful comments. JavaDoc, MSDN had no comments for decades, little examples and the later one lacked lots of API parts. Show me one online documentation of a language that is/was better. Also great are the book "Programming in C 2nd ed" and "Programming Lua", and the Golang focus isn't bad.

PHP.net 2017 explode function: http://php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php

PHP.net 2005 explode function: https://web.archive.org/web/20050206214005/http://php.net/ma...

Some awful stuff: http://php.net/manual/en/function.escapeshellarg.php http://php.net/manual/en/numberformatter.setpattern.php

I'm not saying the otheres were better.

I 'm just saying that PHP.net docs simply had false claims and they needed the users to comment and make them right.

I don't wanna know how much hours I lost with that, haha.

Well these days I simply look in the source, because it doesn't lie

What were the false claims?

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