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voke.fm

17 pointsgusgordon22 comments

I like this, but I feel that a list of all the potential completions instead of snapping to the nearest one would be very useful. Sometimes you remember part of the function you're after but not the enough of it to get the autocomplete to snap to the right thing. It could still snap to the nearest, but seeing a list of potential completions would be nice as well.

Thanks, I see where you are coming from. I'll look into a way to do that. Detecting when a user types something that is contained in the name of many functions/properties/etc. probably would be pretty easy. Then that could just be displayed below the text field or something.

Nice work, I've been wanting to do something like this as well,at least for my own reference. I'd really love to be able to search for parts of the functions' name, for example, searching 'arr' would give all the functions containing the word 'arr', be it in the middle or anywhere in the name.

And please add jquery documentation. It is getting huge and difficult to reference. I myself sometimes just can't be sure if I should use .before() or .insertBefore(). This kind of interface would be great for quick referencing like that

Seems very limited compared to the PHP.net documentation. For instance I like to see return values.

Also, PHP being PHP certain sections are a bit of a mess, such as str* function, and having the 'see also' section along with the function list on the left often helps me find what I'm looking for when I can't remember what it's called.

Thanks for the feedback. This is not meant to be a full replacement for documentation. I always find myself just looking for an example of how to use some code or how to do something with code. This is designed to help solve that problem as quickly as possible. I do think, though, that there is room to add that feature you describe. It would be easy to detect when some characters are entered that are present in a lot of functions, then display a list of relevant functions etc.

Really like this. Simpler than searching PHP documentation if only needing to know something quickly. Nice idea :)

Thanks!

I like how it underlines whether it's CSS or PHP too :P, and the link to the source at the bottom. Very handy little tool. Did it take long to make?

It took a bit to extract all the necessary data the right way, and some little things like getting the back button to work correctly held me up.

I assume by the "back button" you are referring to the text saying "Voke" on each page?

I wouldn't have clicked it until looking for a back button. Might be worth leaving it as text, and maybe placing a back button to the left of it? Personally I think something similar to the back button in Windows Phone would look nice. Something like the button here: http://i.msdn.microsoft.com/dynimg/IC505392.png

I was referring to just the standard browser back button, ha. I'm using the HTML5 history API for this, and the back button was causing recursion problems. That said, I know what you mean, and that could be a good idea.

Ah, so I see. It's good to know you got it working though!

I got an unexpected result for "back" as per the following screenshot:

http://screen.capture.mindcast.com/clips/1362419850gn9hxd2j9...

So good! This made me realise how many times I go to "php.net" and do a search. Bookmarked it and will be using it from now on! Thank you!

I like the easy design.

Can't thank you enough. Maybe i can help you dev though?

Sure, I'd be glad to have some help and hear someone else's ideas. If you're interested you can email me (address is in my profile).

The site looks great and I'm curious how your indexing all those docs to be searched so quickly. However I also feel obliged to tell you to stop encouraging people to use PHP =p

whatever man , php is not going anywhere soon , you can hate it all you want doesnt make a difference.

Great idea ! Can't wait for the javascript :p !

Nice! Can't wait for a Python/Ruby version.

Thanks a lot, I definitely want to make this work for more languages if people find it useful. However, with Python for example, I thought it would be more difficult due to the mass amount of modules, so I went with PHP first.

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