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Bug #80946 Doc build instructions incomplete
Submitted: 2021-04-09 16:03 UTC Modified: 2025-04-25 08:32 UTC
From: php-bugs at allenjb dot me dot uk Assigned: vrana (profile)
Status: Closed Package: *General Issues
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 [2021-04-09 16:03 UTC] php-bugs at allenjb dot me dot uk 
Description:
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The same or very similar instructions appear in 3 places I found:
https://github.com/php/doc-base (README.md)
http://doc.php.net/tutorial/local-setup.php
https://wiki.php.net/doc/phd

This is the actual sequence of commands I ended up running:
mkdir phpdoc
cd phpdoc
git clone git@github.com:php/doc-en.git
git clone git@github.com:php/doc-base.git
git clone https://github.com/php/phd.git
php phd/render.php --help
php doc-base/configure.php
cd doc-en
php ../doc-base/configure.php

Both times I ran doc-base/configure.php resulted in a "No language directory found" error.

After scanning configure.php to see what it was looking for, to fix the issue I created 'en' in the phpdoc directory, then ran doc-base/configure.php from there.

The instructions should be updated with the missing step to create the language directory.

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 [2021-04-09 16:12 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Verified -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2021-04-09 16:12 UTC] cmb@php.net 
For https://github.com/php/doc-base,

    git clone git@github.com:php/doc-en.git

should actually be

    git clone git@github.com:php/doc-en.git en

After ./configure there should be a file doc-base/.manual.xml
(~40MB) which is the full PHP manual in DocBook format.  This file
can then be fed to PhD for rendering.
 [2021-04-12 12:19 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Package: Doc Build problem +Package: Documentation problem -Assigned To: cmb +Assigned To:
 [2021-04-12 12:19 UTC] cmb@php.net 
I've just fixed the description in doc-base\README.md[1].  Not
sure what to do with the other places; probably a good idea to
unify and link to a canonical source.

[1] <https://github.com/php/doc-base/commit/fb807d73f70fd46026f447a8c36da9ed54d1439b>
 [2021-04-17 10:08 UTC] php-bugs at allenjb dot me dot uk 
Not sure if this should maybe be a separate issue, but I just found http://doc.php.net/phd/docs/ via a google search, which refers to installing phd from the (as far as I can tell) no longer present svn repo
 [2025-04-25 08:32 UTC] vrana@php.net
-Status: Verified +Status: Closed -Package: Documentation problem +Package: *General Issues -Assigned To: +Assigned To: vrana
 [2025-04-25 08:32 UTC] vrana@php.net 
Thank you for your bug report. This issue has already been fixed
in the latest released version of PHP, which you can download at
http://www.php.net/downloads.php
 
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