Re: documentation copyright question.

Hi! > Our company is planning to develop some editor specially meant to > develop PHP scripts and we had the idea to integrate alot of help and > manuals > (list of all functions, their syntax and descriptions, etc.) inside the > program so that the user has all the information close. We don`t have > all the knowledge > to write this ourselves, so our question is basically this: are we > allowed to use (read: copy) your PHP manual in our program? We would > need the function > names, the descriptions of them and the explanation of the arguments. > > Please let me know if we can do this, if there are any limitations to > it, or if it`s not allowed at all. Well, there are already some editors doing this. We also have very integrateable versions. The HTML files are named among a general scheme, so you can show that page the user would like to see in a context sensitive environment. The new CHM version also supports some new integration capabilities. We are absolutely on allowing the integration of the manual. It would be nice however to provide the function list in an updateable format, so users can update the docs as the PHP documentation changes. You should indicate in your product, that the manual is our work of course :) Have a happy new year, Goba [one webmaster@php.net]