Re: [PHP-DOC] contribute to the Arabic PHP documentation

On Nov 14, 2010, at 11:36 PM, Khaled Al-Shamaa wrote:

> Dear friends,
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> I am Khaled Al-Shamaa founder of the PHP and Arabic language project =
(http://www.ar-php.org/en_index-php-arabic.html), you can check it also =
in the Arabic section at the PHP related sites page =
(http://www.php.net/links.php). We are formulating a team to translate =
PHP manual into Arabic language, so I need SVN account to get required =
access to contribute and perform this task.
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> On the other hand, is there a PDF version or one HTML page (ready to =
print) of "PHP Documentation HOWTO" (i.e. =
http://doc.php.net/php/en/dochowto/)? I believe it should be our bible =
to accomplish our task successfully.

Greetings Khaled and others,

It's great to see a desire to translate the manual into Arabic. The =
Persian team (Pedram) did spent some time getting RTL languages working =
but I'm afraid it's not yet perfect. Maybe you can guys can also help =
with that. Also, I'm CCing doc-ar@ as maybe some lurkers there are =
interested.

Contributing begins with patches, which eventually turns into SVN =
access. In other words, you should check out the php documentation =
sources, fix things, then submit fixes as patches. Once people realize =
that you're a sane person who truly does want to contribute, then you'll =
gain commit access.=20

The following will be a good start:

 - http://wiki.php.net/doc/howto

Also, if you're into testing newish things that may or may not work, =
then try out (it'll setup the doc environment):

 - =
http://svn.php.net/viewvc/phpdoc/doc-base/trunk/scripts/create-phpdoc-setu=
p.php?view=3Dco

There isn't a one page HOWTO nor PDF. Also, please feel free to ask =
questions, and talk to you guys soon! :)

Regards,
Philip=