Re: [PHP-DOC] php manual in man format From: Derick Rethans (d.rethans <email protected>)
Date: 04/13/01

Hello Roel,

I just added this script as make_man.php to the phpdoc cvs tree, so that
others can easily modify it.

Derick

On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Roel Vanhout wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I had no luck with the programs some people on this list suggested :-(
> and since I'm too lazy to do it in two steps, I wrote a php script with
> some regexp matching to extract what I needed. It's not perfect, it
> gives a few screens of warnings when run, but It Works For Me(tm). I now
> have 1825 manpages. I have prepended every file with php_ to make the
> distinction between other commands/functions and the php functions,
> people who don't want that can change the script (it's a very simple
> script). Suggestions to handle this would be welcome. Also, I put
> section 7 in the header of the pages, I'm not sure how correct this is,
> I guess it's ok.
> One thing that is not so nice in this script is how sample code is
> displayed; I run code parts through indent but it doesn't handle php
> tags and html tags very well, and newlines are mostly lost in the man
> page. If someone would want to spend some time hacking indent to support
> php, I would appreciate a mail on where to get that modified version :-)
>
> cheers,
>
> roel
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 08:14:05PM +0200, Roel Vanhout wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a way to get the php manual in man format? afaik there is no
> > groff backend for jade, but has someone maybe written something else?
> > I've tried to make a perl script to convert the xml source to man, but
> > the structure of the documents is too complex to handle easily :-(
> > Thanks.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > roel
>

Derick Rethans

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