My Motivation

I find it easier to learn things by reading 'offline'.

I'd like to lean back and read the narrative part of a paper version of the official php manual.

My Scuppered Plan

My plan was to download the manual, print all but the Function Reference section and then read it.

I have downloaded the "Single HTML file" version of the manual from the php.net download page. (That version did not contain any images, so I patched-in the ones from the Many HTML files version with no problem.)

My plan was to open that "Single HTML file" in an HTML editor, delete the Function Reference section then print it out.

Unfortunately, although I have tried three different editors, I have not been able to successfully load-up that massive html file to be able to edit it. Its about (~40MB).

I started to look into the phpdoc framework with a view to rendering my own html docs from the source...but that's a steep learning curve for a newby..and is a last resort.

I would use a file splitter, but they tend to split files crudely with no regard for html/xml/xhtml sematics.

So the question is...

Does anyone know know where you can download the php manual in a version that is a kind of half-way house between the 'Single HTML file' and the 'Many HTML files'?

Ideally with the docs split into 3 parts:

• File 1 - stuff before the function reference
• File 2 - function reference
• File 3 - stuff after the function reference

Or

Can you suggest any editors/tools will enable me to split up this file myself?