[FX.php List] Just a tip
Andrew Denman
adenman at tmea.org
Fri May 4 10:05:02 MDT 2007
PHP.net also offers an in-progress extended help file for English Windows
users. It contains the docs and the user comments. It also appears to
integrate with a few IDEs, though I haven't tried that.
http://www.php.net/docs-echm.php
Andrew Denman
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Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Just a tip
Den 04/05/2007 kl. 4.11 skrev Bob Patin:
> Here's a link to a pretty nifty Dashboard widget that is a PHP
> reference tool:
>
> http://www.dashboardwidgets.com/showcase/details.php?wid=1584
I have used that too. Just remember it is only for online use. It has
no offline copy of the PHP docs, using the official website instead...
I also use PHPfi. It's a great tool. It has AppleScript support for
looking up stuff from other apps, and includes small scripts for
BBEdit and Textmate...
The Spotlight-like filtering/searching is nice, but limited since it
only has the function names... Since v.2 it can also cache user
contributed comments from php.net, very cool...
I also sometimes use Chmox. http://chmox.sourceforge.net/
It lets me read Windows-style help files on the Mac (.chm files). The
PHP manual is available for download in this format, and there are of
course tons of other files in this format available for many subjects...
Regarding my starting tip, many of you may not have noticed that I
was *not* referring to the (X)HTML markup validator at validator.w3.org
Instead I was referring to the Link checker at http://
validator.w3.org/checklink
BTW I do also check my markup(!), mostly indirectly via the
Webdeveloper Extension for Firefox (http://chrispederick.com/work/
webdeveloper/).
This extension is a truly great tool, highly recommended!
It does not however feature an offline Validator. For that you could
use HTML validator (http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/
index.html) as suggested by Kevin.
Note that the most recent beta (0.8.x) apparently is not available
for Mac. It adds an SGML parser identical to the one used by w3.
The version available fo Mac (0.7.x) only offers checks using HTML
Tidy (which isn't bad...!), so the results are not identical to
output from validator.w3.org
/Erik
>
> On May 3, 2007, at 8:38 PM, Dale Bengston wrote:
>
>> That looks like a nice tool. I'm often working offline on
>> airplanes or clients' locked-down environments where I don't have
>> public Internet access to reference php.net. This would be a big
>> help.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> On May 3, 2007, at 6:23 PM, Kevin Futter wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/5/07 10:55 PM, "Dale Bengston"
>>> <dbengston at preservationstudio.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I realize that, Kevin.
>>>>
>>>> With respect to the FX.php list, php.net is a good first
>>>> destination.
>>>> It would take care of about 1/4 of the questions posed here;
>>>> perhaps
>>>> more.
>>>>
>>>> Dale
>>>
>>> Indeed. It's a great resource, and one of PHP's major strengths.
>>> I wish all
>>> web technologies were that well-documented. On the Mac I use a
>>> utility
>>> called PHPfi ( http://artissoftware.com/phpfi/ ) that allows you
>>> to search
>>> and navigate a local copy of the manual. I find it much more
>>> convenient than
>>> the online version, and only wish there was a version for Windows!
>>>
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