On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Roel Vanhout <roel.vanh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
hi see http://marc.info/?l=phpdoc&m=130983259607421 PhP_IDE seems to be the tool for the job: https://wiki.php.net/doc/articles/phd_ide -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
