Category PHP

LinuxTag 2003: Doc Web App – "Give it a try"

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Rasmus is in favour of a Web app for the PHP documentation group. “Let’s give it a try”, he said at the PHP documentation group meeting at LinuxTag. Christian from Bitflux and me will see how the Bitflux Editor Next Generation can be used for Mozilla-based online translation of the manual inside of a Web app that fits the workflow requirements of the PHP documentation group (sepcifically the synchronisation of CVS and documentation Web app).

UPDATE

Just talking to Goba at LinuxTag, he sits next to me (hi :). These are the points we have to take care of:

– URLs are referenced with entities anywhere in the DocBook XML, see http://cvs.php.net/co.php/phpdoc/entities/global.ent?login=2&r=1.120

– some more entities are used for ready made paragrpahs (e.g. “This function is experimental…”), see http://cvs.php.net/co.php/phpdoc/en/language-snippets.ent?login=2&r=1.55

– taking a look at Livedocs, we should take care that we use the css definition attributes created by the PHP parsing the DocBook XML to format output in BXE NG

– browsing in the document is provided via Livedocs ToC. The idea is that translators choose a page from the ToC, and click on “edit” at the page. Then BXE NG will pop up an everything will be fine 🙂

UPDATe

Christian has a blog entry on this topic, too.

PEAR::OAI 0.4.0 Released

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The latest release of PEAR::OAI has just been announced [1].

PEAR::OAI is a PHP class library for the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting [2]. This library provides a Server (= Repository) and in the future also a Client (= Harvester) interface. This package is conformant to and makes use of PEAR [3] classes.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=288894
[2] http://www.openarchives.org
[3] http://pear.php.net

The php|architect Grant Program

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“We’ve established the php|architect Grant Program with the purpose of providing financial support for the PHP-related open-source projects that have the potential of bringing the greatest benefit to the PHP community in general.

On June 30, we will announce the assignments of two $1,000 grants to as many projects selected among those who will have entered into the program.”

http://www.phparch.com/grant/

php|architect is a magazine for PHP programmers.

ordnas at php.net

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Sandro is now member of the PHP development team with access to the pear and peardoc CVS – hooray 😉 His PHP email address is ordnas at php dot net. You wonder why his user name is “ordnas”? Well, read it backwards 😉