Re: PHP Documentation API

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Marius Puiu <puiumarius@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I want to write a desktop application that "replicates" PHP manual > (sections of it). Is there a way (maybe API) to do that? > > Note that I'm not trying to copy the documentation, but to refer to it > mostly by querying the online source. > > Thank you! > > (Sorry, I did not find a suitable forum.) There's no API, per se, and we have no intention on providing one in the near future as far as I'm aware. However, it's likely you really don't need one at all; if you don't want to grab the sources and build the manual locally, you can just build a simple GET component into your desktop application to get whatever function reference you may want by loading http://php.net/function_name. For example: http://php.net/strstr http://php.net/http_build_query http://php.net/gupnp_service_introspection_get_state_variable http://php.net/abs For more advanced things, you'll have to get more creative, but chances are you'll have no problem figuring it out. Just make sure whatever you do abides by the documentation license (CC BY 3.0) and you'll be right as rain. -- </Daniel P. Brown> Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/