New CHM manual opinions - please NOT!
| From: | Marjolein Katsma | Date: | Sun, 16 Dec 2001 19:58:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | New CHM manual opinions - please NOT! | ||
| Groups: | php.doc | ||
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From http://weblabor.hu/php/newchm.php:
"Note, that this is not the official version, and there can be many errors and bugs to fix. The
actual officical CHM manual can be found at http://www.php.net/download-docs.php. This does not
mean, that this is a separate project. This will be the official version in the future, as it gets
useable. "
I'm quite alarmed at reading this.
I hope that you will continue to provide the HTML version of the manual! Having a CHM version only
would be a loss.
Many PHP developers using Windows also use HomeSite - which has an extensible Help system for Help
files in HTML format. The PHP help can be intergrated in the development environment, and is
searchable in the context of all help files installed. A CHM format would make it incompatible and
deny all HomeSite users this integration in their development environment: that would be a grave
loss of functionality!
Rather than CHM, give us a regular snapshot of the *commented* manual - the current downladable
manual sorely misses the valuable comments.
P.S. I personally wrote an extension for HomeSite: the PHP expression builder; this is based on
PHP3; a version for PHP4 is planned. I'm also working on tools for even *better* integration of
the PHP HTML help files with HomeSite. The current PHP Expression Builder can be found on my
downloads page: http://hshelp.com/downloads.html
Cheers,
Marjolein Katsma
HomeSite Help - http://hshelp.com/ - Extensions, Tips and Tools