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php manual

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:58 am
by Bill H
I used to have a really simple and effective php manual that I could put on my desktop that had, among other things, a very elegant function reference. It listed all of the php functions, grouped by type, with description and how they worked. If I had a brain fade I could look up substr(), for instance and make sure of the ordering of the arguments. (That's just a sample, I don't have to look that one up very often, but...)

Going online and looking for that now I find only manuals with "function reference" listings of such abstruse things "human language and encoding functions" which include functions with names like "enchant()" and "FriBiDi()" that I would not recognize if they fell on me.

Is there still the sort of elementary php function that searches a string for a given character? Is there a manual that lists those functions for stupid people like me, in groups like "string functions" and "math functions" etc.? Can somebody point me to a downloadable copy of it?

Re: php manual

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:13 pm
by Weirdan
If you use recent chm manual from php net, you may type 'String functions' in index and find the page listing all string functions. Otherwise it's located under Text Processing / Strings in the function reference.

Re: php manual

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:23 pm
by social_experiment
https://code.google.com/p/php-course/do ... m&can=2&q=
I've got a copy like that, the name it has is php_manual_en.chm and it's a compiled HTML help file.
Hth

Re: php manual

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:48 pm
by Bill H
Thanks. I do see the string functions, finally and I daresay sufficient exploration will find other types of functions. The manual I had before was vastly more simple and easier to use. I wish I could find it again.

Do "chm" files not run on Windows 7, perhaps? I downloaded it and it more or less runs. That is to say the menu window loads, but the information window has a "failed to load" message.

Re: php manual

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 5:49 pm
by Weirdan
Bill H wrote: Do "chm" files not run on Windows 7, perhaps? I downloaded it and it more or less runs. That is to say the menu window loads, but the information window has a "failed to load" message.
You have to 'unblock' the file. Right-click, select 'properties' and there should be a button called unblock.

This screenshot is from Vista, but I guess Windows 7 has something similar:
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Re: php manual

Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 11:22 am
by Bill H
Got it. Win 7 is same. Thank you.