Nickguitar / pman

Command line utilitary for the PHP manual

pman

Command line utilitary for the PHP manual

This is a simple script that helps you see quick information about PHP functions directly from command line.

It returns:

1. The function's availability
2. The function's description
3. The function's definition
4. The function's parameters
5. The function's return value

Usage

$ ./pman function_name

Screenshots

Installation

1. Download the PHP documentation "many files" (https://www.php.net/distributions/manual/php_manual_en.tar.gz)
2. Unzip everything to some folder (e.g. /opt/pman/)
3. Change the path in $manual_path at line 4 to the path where you unzipped the files
4. Make pman executable with chmod +x pman

Tip: use # mv pman /bin to call it from anywhere

Note

This is by far not the best code I could to, and I've made some quick fixes. I know the code isn't beaultiful.

I haven't tested with a lot of functions and the PHP manual has some inconsistences, so it's possible that there is some bug.

Oh, and since I made this to work with functions only, I deleted every html file that doesn't start with "function." on the folder at step 2