Have a look at the manual HOWTO:
http://www.php.net/manual/howto/
Regards,
Philip
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, shimi wrote:
>
> CVS = Concurrent Versions System. It is a system that allows you to hold
> different revisions of the SAME files, and see the changes between each
> and each version, as well as to revert a change and return a file to the
> state it were before you changed it.
>
> Yes, you must use CVS to translate files, because the manual files are
> stored on CVS, and this is the only way to update them. What you basically
> do is "get" the files tree for your relevant translation, and then copy
> files from the original english distribution to the same place on the tree
> of the translated manual, translate it, and update the CVS server with
> your new file. In order to do that you use basically 3 commands:
>
> cvs checkout (to get a tree), like:
>
> cvs checkout phpdoc-id [if 'id' is the abbreveation code for your language]
>
> and:
>
> cvs add new-filename-for-cvs-to-know-about
> cvs commit -m 'reason for action' filename-that-you-now-want-to-update
>
> all that, is, of course, after you log-in with your CVS username and
> password, which you must have. the instructions for doing that are in the
> pages that you already know, and there is more on that inside the PHP
> manual itself (look for "translation").
>
>
> I believe your language has no current "module" (a place where translated
> files are stored, what you "check-out" to translate), and if that's true,
> such module should be created by the PHP systems administrators. That, I
> cannot do. :) So we'll have to wait for them...
>
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Wiwid Lukiyanto wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > First, i'm sorry if my english is bad.
> >
> > I want to translate the PHP manual to my language, Indonesia. I know about
> > XML, but doesn't know about CVS. I read about CVS at
> > http://www.php.net/cvs-php.php, go to CVS home (http://www.cvshome.org) and
> > the others. But I still confuse about CVS. What is CVS? Can I translate the
> > manual without knowing about CVS?
> >
> > Oh yeah. I also look at tjhe http://cvs.php.net. I see the list of the file.
> > I opened en/reference/array. And I find some file on there (with format
> > *.xml). I opened reference.xml. If I want to translate, should I edit
> > something like that file?
> >
> > Thank you. I still confuse =)
> >
> >
> > LuckyGuy354
> > IT Beginner
> >
> > http://www.wiwid-l.net
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
>
> Best regards,
> Shimi
>
>
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