Thanks Richard

Downloading the docs now :)

Where is a decent place to start putting my tutorials?

I really wanted to create decent use cases and examples for SPL, as so
many people know of it,
but have no idea how or why they would implement it.

Cheers

John



2008/11/26 Richard Quadling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 2008/11/26 Lukas Kahwe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>> On 26.11.2008, at 09:07, John Le Drew wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Lukas
>>>
>>> I was talking to Steph over the weekend and wanted to put together a
>>> set of tutorials + examples for many of the features of PHP, starting
>>> with SPL. I thought that the Wiki would be a decent place for these, I
>>> also thought about adding them directly to the Docs but I wasn't sure
>>> where to start with that; I am familiar with DocBook etc. but not sure
>>> who to ask. I was thinking of creating all the pages under /tutorials.
>>
>>
>> You should talk to the doc guys about this. Generally I think they prefer
>> not to use a wiki for this, because they are worried the content will stay
>> there instead of making it to the actual manual. The tool chain for docbook
>> has gotten a lot simpler these days and I am sure they will be very happy to
>> help you out.
>>
>> regards,
>> Lukas Kahwe Smith
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Hello John.
>
> The usual way to get started is to use CVS to download phpdoc and to
> get phd (the PHP document builder) via PEAR.
>
> Within phpdoc, there is a configure.php script. This essentially
> combines all the small XML docbook files into one expanded manual
> (called .manual.xml)
>
> phd then can process this file to make HTML, PHP, PDF, etc.
>
>
> You can make alterations to the phpdoc files and run through the
> configure and build process to test your changes.
>
> Then create a few small patches to let us see that you get it.
>
> After that, one of the more senior people will give you permission to
> commit those patches and off you go!
>
>
> Richard.
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> -----
> Richard Quadling
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