Actually, PhD is no longer in beta, so you can install it using "pear install doc.php.net/phd".
ok i will test this, but yes should work ;-)
The configure.php script is located in doc-base. Personally, I'd recommend that over the build.sh script that is in the language modules dir in SVN. build.sh uses --enable-xml-details, which uses a lot of memory and isn't necessary unless you're debugging something. Also, actually building the documentation isn't normally necessary. Running configure.php is sufficient to check that the build isn't broken.
yes, it wasn´t mentioned that this file is inside doc-base, i will add this.
The howto is located in http://svn.php.net/viewvc/phpdoc/doc-base/trunk/howto/ (/doc-base/howto if you checkout a module). It's written in the same format as the PHP documentation (i.e. DocBook). Feel free to submit patches for improvements to this list.
ok, i will try *g* but shouldn´t be a problem.