phpdoc and web services

Hi, I just wanted to point you all to an effort by the phpedit (ww.phpedit.org) folks. They are currently building something similar to phpdoc but according to their author he is trying to get some extra features into their thing. He is currently preparing the next stable version and is requesting comments on his “help text generator.” Since I assume a fair amount of people will end up using phpedit (I just proposed that someone steps up and does a linux port and I am willing to sponsor the kylix license for that effort). Anyways I think it would be good for you guys to maybe put in what you would like to see so that the output conforms with what you guys want for documentation and meta information. Also I recently proposed to him to look into wsdl and how that could be integrated in the documentation generation. This would be very cool and would help php greatly in future development (I just did a presentation on sopa, wsdl, uddi and I was blown away by the systinet wasp server and how easy it was to create a soap based application and have the wsdl document automatically generated). The developers of phpedit seemed to like the idea (as can be read on the phpedit QA mailinglist) Even if none of you guys like what phpedit is doing and want to stick with phpdoc adding wsdl generation would be very cool. This feature could also have tie-ins with the soap class that someone mentioned is being developed for pear atm (or the xml-rpc/soap extensions that are build for php). Just thought I should through this idea into this mailinglist. I am a bit busy with work and doing the metabase stuff … so I can really jump into this whole thing right now .. but I will once I have more time available (yeah right ;-) ). Best regards, Lukas Smith smith@dybnet.de _______________________________  DybNet Internet Solutions GbR  Alt Moabit 89  10559 Berlin  Germany  Tel. : +49 30 83 22 50 00  Fax : +49 30 83 22 50 07  www.dybnet.de info@dybnet.de _______________________________