RE: [PHP-DOC] Re: Idea: quickref.swf

I think attachments are not allowed. Anyway, I completed the stuff. You can see it work at http://www.xs0.com/php/index.html The function list is http://www.xs0.com/php/funclist.txt which is basically the one from cvs.php.net with added echo and print The JavaScript is at http://www.xs0.com/php/functions.js It's cryptic, because I wanted the file size as small as possible; still, the HTML output is on separate lines so it can be updated more easily. It's currently 19463 bytes. gzipped funclist.txt is 12648, so I guess this is a pretty good result. You can generate a new one with http://www.xs0.com/php/funclist.zip Just update funclist.txt and run make. I tested with IE6 and Mozilla/FireBird. Seems to work... The nice thing is that it can be included just before </body>, so everything else works without any additional waiting... And for the details on compression: First, the function list is compressed with something similar to prefix compression, except it can work on multiple levels. For example: test test_abc test_foo test_foo_bar test_foo_bcp test_foo_bxs will get compressed to test[_abc,_foo[_b(ar,cp,xs)]] It is done by considering all possible prefixes and calculating the length reduction for each. It's probably not optimal, but I can't think of anything better. The difference between () and [] is that [] also includes the prefix in the uncompressed list, so array array_search becomes array[_search], while array_search array_lookup becomes array_(search,lookup) After this is done, all unused characters between ASCIIs 32 and 124 are used for commonly appearing sequences of characters in the compressed string from above. } is used as a separator, because it is shorter than ','. Again, all sequences up to length 7 are considered and length reduction is calculated. I tried with sequences up to 15 characters, but there was no improvement, and it is slow enough as-is. The first step reduces file size from 42k to 23k, and the second by further 5k. There's about 2k of overhead for decompression and displaying. Mitja -----Original Message----- From: Gabor Hojtsy [mailto:gabor@hojtsy.hu] Sent: 28. september 2003 19:32 To: Mitja Slenc Cc: phpdoc@lists.php.net; webmaster@php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DOC] Re: Idea: quickref.swf Mitja sent a compression method, but he accidentaly only sent it to me, so I am reposting it here. It should probably be taken into account. Goba