From 033a8ab3735204664dd3e60b1a24de7c17e02c8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gabor Hojtsy Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 21:46:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] we are not providing text versions anymore, plus adding more info on linux chm viewers, the extended CHM, and URL shortcuts git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@159482 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1 --- appendices/about.xml | 54 +++++++++++++++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) diff --git a/appendices/about.xml b/appendices/about.xml index 73acd8242d..34bd85348f 100644 --- a/appendices/about.xml +++ b/appendices/about.xml @@ -1,14 +1,6 @@ - + - About the manual @@ -26,17 +18,18 @@ - You can read the manual online at &url.php; + You can read the manual online at the PHP.net website and on the numerous mirror sites. For best performance, you should choose the mirror site closest to you. You can view the manual in either its plain (print-friendly) HTML format or an HTML format that integrates the manual into the look and feel of the PHP website itself. - An advantage of the online manual over most of the offline formats is the + Two notable advantages of the online manual over most of the offline formats is the integration of user-contributed - notes. An obvious disadvantage is that you have to be online to view - the manual in the online formats. + notes and the URL shortcuts which you + can use to get to the desired manual parts quickly. An obvious disadvantage is + that you have to be online to view this edition of the manual. There are several offline formats of the manual, and the most appropriate @@ -46,17 +39,17 @@ formats' section of this appendix. - The most cross-platform formats of the manual are the HTML and plain-text - versions. The HTML format is provided both as a single HTML file and as - a package of individual files for each section (which results in a - collection of several thousand files). The HTML and plaintext formats are - provided as tar files compressed using the bzip2 archiver. + The most cross-platform format of the manual is the HTML version. This + is provided both as a single HTML file and as a package of individual files + for each section (which results in a collection of several thousand files). + We provide these versions compressed, you will need some sort of uncompression + utility to get the files contained in the archives. Another popular cross-platform format, and the format most suited to printing, is PDF (also known as Adobe Acrobat). But before you rush to download this format and hit the Print button, be warned that the manual is - nearly 2000 pages long, and constantly being revised. + more than 2000 pages long, and constantly being revised. @@ -79,19 +72,18 @@ Windows HTML Help application. This version provides full-text search, a full index, and bookmarking. Many popular Windows PHP development environments also integrate with this - version of the documentation to provide easy access. + version of the documentation to provide easy access. CHM viewers for + Linux desktops are also available. Check out + xCHM or + GnoCHM. + + + + There is also an extended CHM version + available, which is updated less frequently, but provides much more + features. It will only work on Microsoft Windows + though, because of the technologies used to build up the help pages. -