Re: php documentation in database?
| From: | Hannes Magnusson | Date: | Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:23:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: php documentation in database? | ||
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 21:56, Pentasis <pentasis@lavabit.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am currently working on an IDE implementation which includes PHP (not
> commercially). For the purpose of auto-complete, code hinting and inline
> help I need (obviously) accurate information, so I was thinking about
> writing a small application to extract the functions and their description
> from the PHP-documentation itself.
> As I am studying the layout of the pages, I was wondering if this
> documentation is maybe already maintained in a database? If you think about
> it, it would make sense. It is much easier to maintain this kind of
> technical detail in a database than it would be in pages.
> So my question is this: Is the PHP function reference maintained in a
> database, and if so, is it possible to acquire (a copy of) it?
Its maintained in Docbook XML.
And as with everything else on php.net, the source is available in SVN[1].
You may want to look into "PhD", it takes the xml and renders it into
various formats.
Of of those formats are intended for IDE creators.
-Hannes
[1] http://svn.php.net/viewvc/phpdoc/
[2] http://wiki.php.net/doc/phd