php-doc-en/preface.xml
Gabor Hojtsy dc1e99b37a Updating the preface.xml file to be up to
date with the english version. Hope the manual
at phpweb will be up to date soon, as it is rather
old, and the manual builds since days...


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<preface id="preface">
<title>Preface</title>
<abstract>
<simpara>
<acronym>PHP</acronym>, which stands for &quot;PHP: Hypertext
Preprocessor&quot;, is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much
of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with some
unique features thrown in. The goal of the language
is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages
quickly.
</simpara>
<simpara>
Note, that PHP is not only a Hypertext Preprocessor today. You
can generate images, PDF files or even Flash animations on the
fly with simple PHP scripts. Also check
<ulink url="&url.php.gtk;">PHP-GTK</ulink> to see, that
PHP can be used to write client-side GUI applications.
</simpara>
</abstract>
<sect1 id="about">
<title>About this Manual</title>
<para>
This manual is written in <acronym>XML</acronym> using the <ulink
url="&url.docbook.xml;">DocBook XML DTD</ulink>, using <ulink
url="&url.dsssl;"><acronym>DSSSL</acronym></ulink> (Document
Style and Semantics Specification Language) for formatting. The
tools used for formatting <acronym>HTML</acronym> and
<acronym>TeX</acronym> versions are
<ulink url="&url.jade;">Jade</ulink>, written by <ulink
url="&url.jclark;">James Clark</ulink> and <ulink
url="&url.dbstyle;">The Modular DocBook Stylesheets</ulink>
written by <ulink url="&url.nwalsh;">Norman Walsh</ulink>.
We use <ulink url="&url.winhelp;">Microsoft HTML Help Workshop</ulink>
to generate the WinHelp format of the manual.
</para>
<para>
You can download the actual manual in various languages and
formats, including plain text, plain <acronym>HTML</acronym>,
<acronym>PDF</acronym>, PalmPilot DOC, PalmPilot iSilo and
WinHelp, from <ulink url="&url.php.docs;">&url.php.docs;</ulink>.
The manuals are updated daily.
</para>
<para>
You can find more information about downloading the
<acronym>XML</acronym> source code of this documentation
at <ulink url="&url.php.cvs;">&url.php.cvs;</ulink>. The
documentation is stored in the <literal>phpdoc</literal> module.
</para>
</sect1>
</preface>
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