Chapter 14. Viewing Your Changes

There are several stylesheets available for generating viewable documentation, the most useful will probably be:

To generate a viewable copy of the documentation, cd to the phpdoc directory and issue one of the following commands:

$ make html
$ make bightml
$ make phpweb
$ make pdf
$ make rtf

To make an actual copy of this HOWTO:

$ make howto

The plain text version of the PHP documentation is made by filtering the bightml output through lynx.

Note: Generating viewable documentation is CPU intensive and can take a little while to complete. E.g. generating the simple HTML manual takes about 7m 30s on a 700MHz box.

Where the output files are placed depends on the format you built. HTML manuals generate in the html subdirectory of phpdoc, similarly the make phpweb command will place the files in the php directory. The place for the HOWTO HTML files is howto/html.

If all goes well, you should have your own copy of the documentation, including any changes you've made.