Hi

I'm looking to create a Table that holds all of the PHP Functions, their
description and syntax.

It's all in the manual and I'm trying to extract it from there but I find it
hard since the HTML template is not the same for all the functions.

I may be going about this the wrong way... is there an easier way?

thanks

berber

Copy&Paste man (Just kidding) Now, seriously, I myself would write a
parser for this, fetch some raw data from the pages, and do further
processing on those.

I didn't checked yet, but I am almost sure that there may be only a few
variations of the manual's used html template, and I don't think that it
would take you two much time to figure out ways to extract data from
each of this variations.

On the other hand, I think that this would be a good question to be put
on the PHP Manual Mailing List. I am almost sure that somebody already
has done this and can help you with it.

sergiu


WeberSites LTD wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm looking to create a Table that holds all of the PHP Functions, their
> description and syntax.
>
> It's all in the manual and I'm trying to extract it from there but I find it
> hard since the HTML template is not the same for all the functions.
>
> I may be going about this the wrong way... is there an easier way?
>
> thanks
>
> berber
>

# EMAIL REMOVED / 2007-01-21 17:04:43 +0200:
> I'm looking to create a Table that holds all of the PHP Functions, their
> description and syntax.
>
> It's all in the manual and I'm trying to extract it from there but I find it
> hard since the HTML template is not the same for all the functions.
>
> I may be going about this the wrong way... is there an easier way?

The canonical source for the manual is in DocBook, the various formats
are produced automatically from that.

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