Hi, I'm trying to create a list of all php functions in the manual with their function signatures as they appear in the php docs, e.g.
file array file ( string $filename [, int $flags = 0 [, resource $context ]] ) I need this to easily get 'tooltips' of php function signatures in vim, so that I don't have to go online just to look up the order of arguments each time. I rather naively thought I could generate such a list from the php docs but I can't really find a way to go about it. I thought the easiest way would be to parse the xml myself and bypass the docbook toolchain. I ran into problems with entities that I can't find anywhere; e.g. php-doc\en\reference\curl\reference.xml uses an entity 'reference.curl.entities.functions' that isn't defined anywhere as far as I can tell. Is this generated when building the docs? Either way, my second option would be to use the existing stylesheets; that would do the formatting of the signature (with optional arguments etc) for me. I looked through the doc-base\scripts directory and elsewhere but I can't find a concise way there either. I guess I'd have to write a stripped down stylesheet in parallel with the html, pdf etc ones, or run the html one and extract the pieces I need from there. Is there a run-a-single-script way to build the php docs? I'm on Windows, maybe that makes things more complicated. Frankly at this point in time it seems the easiest way is to walk over doc-base\funclist.txt, grab the function's page from the php website and parse the function signature out of the html - which would make me go %| if that is truly the easiest way. Is there anyone who can point me in the right direction on how to go about extracting custom information from the php documentation sources? cheers, roel
