Re: Proposal: PHP quick reference on local web server

Can't we just offer a downloadable PHP version of the manual, as well? That would be pretty nice... I mean, you can build it yourself, but that's not really easy or anything. Regards, Dirkjan "Gabor Hojtsy" <gabor@hojtsy.hu> wrote in message news:005101c3058e$ddc0f090$0f00000a@developer2... > 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] >