PHP Function Table / Implementation & Documentation

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About this Functiontable

This is a reference table that shows for each function (and alias)

in which version it is available
where its definition currently lives in the source
if it is documented
translation status for the supported documentation languages

The Information is gathered into a mysql database from checkouts of all tagged CVS release versions from the past plus the latest CVS version by modified versions of the funclist and quickref tools from phpdoc.

I created this overview after finding more than one function that had been introduced into PHP 3 and documented after the code split but not brought into the PHP 4 repository yet.

The pages are available as a tarball (php-reftab.tar.gz) for offline reading (~430KB packed, ~13MB(!) unpacked).

Note:

Translation status is checked by comparing the <refpurpose> entries against the english version. This may lead to wrong results if the english version changed without the not-yet-translated file being updated.
Take this field as a hint only!
Alias information is taken from php 4 source only, in php 3 source there is no difference between function and alias entries in the function tables.

ToDo:

create a style with reduced markup for faster table rendering
statistics need further improvements, for example protection against multiple entries
protection against broken links when documentation sites are not up-to-date with latest phpdoc cvs (prepared but didn't work)
implementation links for php 3
switch to some sort of XML output

What's new:

23.11.2000
- will no longer report object member functions as aliases
11.10.2000
- the source to generate theese pages is now available on cvs.php.net as module functable
- i slightly reformated the function detail page and added line number information to the XML source links
22.8.2000
- improved output for HTML compatibility
- language identifiers may now have more than two characters
14.8.2000
- statistics imporovements
- seperate tables for php 3 and 4
- auto-detects new languages
- internal generation speedups and styleability
13.6.2000
- no more dead links?
- links to german manual pages updated
- links to xml documentation source files added in function details
6.6.2000
- function implemented in PHP 4 but not made available
22.5.2000
- updated to include php 4.0.0 release
- see also: a2ps stylesheet for pretty-printed php code
19.5.2000 (#2)
- functions grouped by extension extension
- minor markup changes for better print output
19.5.2000
- prototype-column for php 3
- filename columns removed from the table
- reference links to bonsai.php.net include line numbers
- for php 4 there are now links to function table entry _and_ implementation
17.5.2000
- prototype-column (latest php 4 only)
- what's missing pages under statistics
  - functions without a prototype in the PHP 4 source (PHP 3 proto is shown if available)
  - undocumented functions overview
  - undocumented aliases overview
  - functions available in PHP 3 but not in PHP 4