phpcredits

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

phpcredits -- Prints out the credits for PHP

Description

bool phpcredits ( [int flag] )

This function prints out the credits listing the PHP developers, modules, etc. It generates the appropriate HTML codes to insert the information in a page. flag is optional, and it defaults to CREDITS_ALL. To generate a custom credits page, you may want to use the flag parameter. For example to print the general credits, you will use somewhere in your code:

<?php
phpcredits
(CREDITS_GENERAL);
?>

And if you want to print the core developers and the documentation group, in a page of its own, you will use:

<?php
phpcredits
(CREDITS_GROUP + CREDITS_DOCS + CREDITS_FULLPAGE);
?>

And if you feel like embedding all the credits in your page, then code like the one below will do it:

<html>
<head>
  <title>My credits page</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
// some code of your own
phpcredits(CREDITS_ALL - CREDITS_FULLPAGE);
// some more code
?>
</body>
</html>

表格 1. Pre-defined phpcredits() flags

namedescription
CREDITS_ALL All the credits, equivalent to using: CREDITS_DOCS + CREDITS_GENERAL + CREDITS_GROUP + CREDITS_MODULES + CREDITS_FULLPAGE. It generates a complete stand-alone HTML page with the appropriate tags.
CREDITS_DOCSThe credits for the documentation team
CREDITS_FULLPAGE Usually used in combination with the other flags. Indicates that a complete stand-alone HTML page needs to be printed including the information indicated by the other flags.
CREDITS_GENERAL General credits: Language design and concept, PHP 4.0 authors and SAPI module.
CREDITS_GROUPA list of the core developers
CREDITS_MODULES A list of the extension modules for PHP, and their authors
CREDITS_SAPI A list of the server API modules for PHP, and their authors

See also phpinfo(), phpversion() and php_logo_guid().


add a note add a note User Contributed Notes
jasper at bryant-greene dot name
05-Sep-2005 03:42
"Also, the generated HTML code only complies with HTML 4.01 or lower, but not as XHTML 1.0 (it uses deprecated attributes, and don't close empty HTML tags explicitly with />)."

That's because it's generated HTML code, like you said, not XHTML code. And you don't close empty HTML tags explicitly with />, only empty XHTML tags.
05-Sep-2002 10:43
Note that each individual Credit page includes currently include a <style> CSS stylesheet, and a centered <h1> title that displays "PHP 4 Credits", before the credits table(s).

So these elements will be repeated on the page if you use successively several phpcredits() calls with distinct flag values.

The embedded stylesheet may corrupt your page layout if you have another stylesheet generated before the content generated by this call. You may need to use an ob_created buffer to capture the ob_contents() after calling this function, in order to eliminate the <h1>title and the <style> CSS stylesheet.

Also, the generated HTML code only complies with HTML 4.01 or lower, but not as XHTML 1.0 (it uses deprecated attributes, and don't close empty HTML tags explicitly with />).

Note that there's no way for now to isolate the credits for a specific extension name (with CREDITS_MODULES) or for a specific SAPI module name (with CREDITS_SAPI).

The GENERAL_CREDITS displays also 2 tables: the first one is "Language Design & Concept", the second one is "PHP4 Authors Contribution" for the main PHP core subprojects (Zend Scripting Language Engine, Extension Module API, Unix Build and Modularization, Win32 Port, SAPI Abstraction Layer).