How to use Ubuntu's PHP-doc

Question

I run

 sudo apt-get install php-doc

I did not find a man entry, nor "which" entry for the program. There is no "phpdoc" -program in my PATH altough I have /usr/bin in my PATH which apparently should be the location of the installed program.

How can you use the program in terminal?

Answer 1

The php-doc package just contains documentation for the core PHP functions, from http://php.org/documentation/ - no programs.

firefox /usr/share/doc/php/index.html &

...and this is how you use it.

(If you were trying to install phpDocumentor instead, other answers already have instructions.)

Answer 2

Checkout this stackoverflow question.

There is also an overview of how to run phpdoc on the comandline as part of a larger tutorial.

Also, try the README - you may need to build it from source.

Answer 3

You haven't installed phpdoc as in phpdoc.org

You just installed some PHP documentation.

This is from the description: "This package provides the documentation for the PHP scripting language."

Answer 4

You need to install the php5-cli package:

sudo apt-get install php5-cli

Then you can run php from the terminal using: php filename.php