Re: [PHP4BETA] best form of php documentation

On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 01:26:04PM -0700, Marc Ryan Ray wrote:

> After downloading the PDF version of the php manual I found 
> it to be more usefull and up to date version the online 
> manual.  For instance there was documentation on the libSWF 
> functions.  So which form of documentation is most up to 
> date and correct?

The PDF manual is now older than the current HTML manual at
http://snaps.php.net/manual/en/manual-en-current.tar.gz. And it looks to
me that a cron job cannot build the manual automatically. Someone has
trashed the DocBook installation on va.php.net.

The PDF manual have been indexed by Mike Robinson and is based on a
PostScript version, which was build on Tuesday 23th May. You can verify
this, if you look at the levenshtein() function. Hartmut Holzgraefe 
changed the name of that function and I made an update. Since Hartmut
changed it in all places, Mike corrected this in the PDF manual. 

To build a PDF manual out of the XML source is very difficult and at the
time impossible. There is one solution, but most of the links are missing.

-Egon

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