Comments on: PHP function reference in XML

By: Derek Reynolds

Derek Reynolds — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:10:34 +0000

Anyway to grab the parameter list and version info?

By: Bas

Bas — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:19:20 +0000

Nice. Good to see that my file is proving useful to more people than I expected.

By: NM-blog : PHP Function Manual in Google

NM-blog : PHP Function Manual in Google — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:54:16 +0000

[...] I then figured it should be possible to combine the two so I’ll have a Subscribed Links for the php.net functions. The documentation showed me I needed an xml-file to do it for me. More info. I first thought it would be possible to simply say whenever the keyword php is used, limit the search to php.net, this sort of is possible but what I wanted was a tad bit more difficult. I figured I wouldn’t be the first to need the php documentation in xml format, a quick search turned this up. [...]

By: Nico v Vlet

Nico v Vlet — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:40:52 +0000

Hi I took your xml-file and made it into Subscribed Link for Google. Thanks for publishing it, I couldn't have done this without it. Click here to add this subscribed link

By: Bas

Bas — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:16:56 +0000

I must have deleted it, because I can’t find it anywhere.
It wasn’t a very elegant piece of code, anyway. Basically, I had a look at the PHP documentation files (which are XML based). Then I wrote a script in PHP which parsed these files.
If you use PHP5, you can use the built-in SimpleXML extension, which is pretty straightforward to use.
You could generate the output that way too, but since my data was not very complex, I just went through a few nested foreach loops.

I apologise for losing the script, but I hope this is any use to you.

By: ed mann

ed mann — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:29:24 +0000

Can you share the code that you used to generate this xml file? I am looking for something very similar.

Thanks

By: Philip Olson

Philip Olson — Sat, 12 May 2007 00:52:38 +0000

There are also a few scripts within the doc sources for this type of task, and some instead scour the php source files themselves (and use the prototypes within). One trouble is the question of what functions should go in this list… should undocumented functions be here? And every PECL extension, even the specialized rarely used ones? These questions have not yet been solved by the doc team.

Sources to consider:

A few text, and one xml file, here:
http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/phpdoc/

Some scripts on this topic here:
http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/phpdoc/scripts/

Once solved we could include a file like this with the others, and it could be based off funcsummary.txt