I previously mentionned Doctrine, our ORM library. It is another PHP Google Summer of Code project and I must say that the Google folks are really getting a lot for their money on this one !

I now want to bring your attention to another project, this one from Hannes Magnusson, Livedocs. Actually, it's not about Livedocs anymore.

If any of you ever edited the PHP manual, you know how a pain it is to only see your changes. The manual is extremely slow to build (takes about 4 hours on my computer). Livedocs was supposed to solve this issue but Hannes realised the goal of being the promised land of the PHP documentation was too much of an Herculean task for Livedocs.

This is where PhD comes into play. It is a new project under the PHP project umbrella that aims to generate Docbook documentation. It is developed by Hannes Magnusson and Gwynne Raskind and it's in a very experimental stage at the moment but I'm already using it when I edit the manual. It helps a lot as I can see the changes I make right away. Well... in about 3 minutes but hey, that's a lot better than 4 hours !

I don't have anymore excuses to not contribute to the documentation now !

Anyway, I invite you to check out that new project, it's really worth it !

Nicolas