Re: note 8398 added to PHP Manual

Ron Chmara writes: > marco@windowmaker.org wrote: > > I was wondering, is it possible to download the PHP manual in the fancy > > form with the annotations etc. etc. ? > > > > I'm teaching people PHP and it would be very nice to have the manual > . in this nice form with the search and everything enabled... > > > > So my question is whether it´s possible to get the complete source > > and related files of the fancy manual with annotations .... > > > > I'm sure I won't be the only one who would like to have this, for educational > > purposes.... > > They are (static manual and errata pieces) available on separate pages, > in dynamic forms, but creating a static version of the errata would be > outdated in about 5 minutes (or less). The source for the complete manual > itself is available via CVS, however, the notes themselves are db-driven. > > You could use some form of intelligent spider (such as wget) to pull > in the various pages, for a static capture, but please be aware that > there are often between 5 and 200 changes to the manual (with errata) > every day, so a capture would be very outdated by the time a two week > class finished. I'd recommend that you use live pages instead. > > -Ronabop Plus, you'd want to be pretty careful about some of the stuff in the notes. Some is great, lots is OK, and some isn't *completely* incorrect. The rest...;) -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Netmill iTech| |http://www.coastnet.com/~torben http://www.netmill.fi| |Ph: 1 250 383-9735 torben@netmill.fi| +----------------------------------------------------------------+