Reader Kristian
Köhntopp writes:
“I attended PHP Congress Cologne (05-Oct-2000 to 06-Oct-2000)
together with Ulf Wendel and Jan Kneschke. We arrived in Cologne
the evening before without incident, hit our hotel sometime in the
evening and immediately departed for the #php.de (IrcNet) channel
party organized by subj). As usual there was no proper beer to be
had in Cologne (the local brew is based on dishwater), but the
Apfelpfannkuchen was nice. So were the people, most of which I was
able to meet to meet in person for the first time. People, you are
as strange in real life as you are on the channel!”
“Next morning found us at the Crowne Plaza hotel, where
Björn Schotte and the Globalpark people where still fixing
problems with Internet access just before the congress was supposed
to start. This should turn out to be a recurring theme during the
entire congress, and is definitely a point to improve next
time.”
“Ulf’s lecture was the first one. He presented his documentation
generator PHPdoc), which is a large PHP script largely based on
concepts borrowed from JavaDoc. phpdoc is able to generate
barebones documentation from many PHP scripts without any
additional information, and can utilize special comments within the
script to generate a full documentation. The output is template
driven HTML, with XML being an interim format. This allows for
automated post-processing and provides unlimited customization of
the documentation.”