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Open Source Documentation Software

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:17 pm
by bazianm
I know this is not a PHP topic per se but I was kind of hoping someone here might have the answer.

The PHP documentation is done in such a way that the text of the documentation itself cannot be modified but users can add comments. I need to do something similar for a product I have. I was wondering if there was an opensource system that would do this for me.

Any and all ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks

Re: Open Source Documentation Software

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:22 pm
by alex.barylski
Doxygen and phpDocumentor are two such systems.

Re: Open Source Documentation Software

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:20 pm
by bazianm
Thank you for your reply.I checked both out. It seems like they are documentation generators. Sounds great but I do not think that will work for me. The source is not java or php.

It wasn't obvious from the websites so I'll ask... Can I write documentation the old way with these systems?

Thanks again for your kind help.

Re: Open Source Documentation Software

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:29 pm
by Christopher
What is "the old way" ?

Re: Open Source Documentation Software

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:02 pm
by bazianm
Actually having to write text, take screen shots, etc. As opposed to generating it from the code...

Re: Open Source Documentation Software

Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 12:28 am
by alex.barylski
Use a Wiki or Blogging platform...

Doxygen and phpDocumentor are API documentors...I assumed that is what you meant...if you mean end user documentation...then you want something with a little more structure or organization and maybe an search engine.

There are countless tools out there that will generate full fledge help files, PDF, etc. OpenOffice is what I have used in the past.