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A few helpful functions were released today.

Download them and try it out!

All are carefully documented.

09-10-2003
The PHPocket Knife Group released new tools today.
Included in the update is a new version of htmlHelper, the quick way to program html with php.

New tools include:
common_base - a class designed to be the base class for all PHPocket Knife classes.

Directory Tools - two classes for reading and directory and file lists.

KNIFE_Template - a set of classes useful for creating html templates. Includes support for loops, included files, and inserted files. KNIFE_Template features a very simple api.... read more

The PHPocket Knife Project is looking for feedback from those who use, have used, or are looking to use our packages. What do you like? What do you hate? What would you like to see added? Let us know!

(5-28-2003 - Kansas USA)
Today the PHPocket Knife project released an update to PHPDoc, and added a new tool: htmlHelper.

A directory reading class has been in the works for a while now. In the meantime, I've been working on getting existing code up to PEAR standards, and documenting it using PHPDoc. I've made some modifications to PHPDoc, so what you see is the result of those. PHPDoc is no longer under strict development as Ulf is basically waiting for a new version of php to include a code parser in the Zend engine. I'm of the opinion that a need exists for a documentor to exist that doesn't rely on that however, so I've been working with Ulf's code, and thinking over the possibility of starting my own that would be very very close to what Ulf did, only with a much different code base as I find Ulf's code to be hard to maintain, and read. This may just expose my ignorance, but I suppose I'll just have to live with that.... read more

January 17, 2002:

The PHPocket Knife development team released two new tools today: rprint, a replacement for print_r() and xml_trim_array() a helper function that works with parsed xml data. Both are highly useful, and seem to be bug-free. Download both today, and test them out!