Re: [PHP4BETA] PHP3/4 as a shell app

Addressed to: "Mark J. Hershenson" <markhers@macnn.com> php4beta@lists.php.net ** Reply to note from "Mark J. Hershenson" <markhers@macnn.com> Fri, 31 Mar 2000 23:27:43 -0500 > > I've not yet done this, but I am in need of applying PHP to my admin > responsibilities. I used PHP 3.0.15 off of our Apache server to so > some fairly complex file reconstruction tasks which our shell/Perl guy > never even finished. Took me 40 minutes, and 15 were testing. > > (Minutes were spent waiting for PHP.com manual pages to load...my only > gripe about this wonderful technology, its developers, or anything > else related to PHP. > You might want to download one of these: http://www.php.net/distribution/manual.zip http://www.php.net/distribution/manual.tar.gz Either one contains the entire php manual as html files. Create a directory in your web tree for it and uncompress the files into that directory. You now have your own personal copy of the php manual on your own web server. It loads MUCH faster.