On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 12:26:36AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> There is currently one thing lacking for the documentation: An index. I mean
> an index with at least all function names, in alphabetic order.
>
> I know, there are lists on the web (php.net too, I think), but I mean in the
> manual itself. It should also contain lemma's like '%', 'string',
> 'safe-mode', etc.
>
> In docbook, there are xml-tags for this.
>
> 1) Do you agree that an index should be added?
Yes :)
> 2) Does someone have any experience with this? (the docbook documentation
> itself has an index, including all the tags. I think that the way they did
> it, would be useful for us too. Assuming that that documentation is written
> in DocBook, but hey... our website is in PHP, so I guess so :-)
Most books are written with DocBook, the PHP manual also.
> 3) If not, does anyone want to do some experiments?
My time is limited. But at phpdoc should be Scheme program for sorting
such entries. To extract the function names would be easy.
> 4) If not, shall I do some experiments? (not committing, of course, until it
> works)
Yes :)
-Egon
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