Re: Proposal: PHP quick reference on local web server

Hi Michael! > the quick reference tips on <http://www.php.net/tips.php> > are very nice > (btw: there seems to be a broken link to an image in the IE5 section). > > What do you think about including these quick search pages into the > downloadable PHP manual? I guess the Windows Help versions already offer > the ability to search for a given keyword, but the HTML versions don't. > > In the HTML versions of the manual, there is not even an index, so > searching for a function is a bit too time consuming for my likings. > > The Quick Reference Tips all refer to the online manual, but I guess > there are a lot of people who don't have an all-you-can-eat internet > connection or are locked into an intranet, without a connection to the > online manual. Most of these people probably already have a web server > with PHP installed, otherwise PHP development would be a real pita. > > I already grabbed manual-lookup.php, manual-lookup.inc, prepend.inc and > quickref.php and adjusted them to work on localhost, so it's not too > much of a technical problem. > > Are there any copyright problems with these files or are they as free as > PHP itsself? Any other problems with including these files? We already have a proposed local search feature, which is quite nice, but needs some code cleanup, and restructuring. We have quite some ideas about making the PHP website and the offline manual more useable, but free time is needed for that. Goba [one webmaster@php.net]