For fun, I ran a perl script to parse our source code and pick out function data. Then I wrote a simple web-interface that searches for functions as you type, displaying a list of declaration lines, with a [show] link to show the full code of the function.

From: Andrew Garrett &lt;andrew(a)epstone.net&gt; Subject: [Wikitech-l] Fancy AJAX MediaWiki code reference To: "Wikimedia developers" &lt;wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Date: Sunday, November 9, 2008, 6:17 AM Hi all, Usually, for code documentation, we've either grepped the code for the method we wanted to look for, or used doxygen. I'm sure many of us have found doxygen a little too clunky, with too many clicks to find the required information. For fun, I ran a perl script to parse our source code and pick out function data. Then I wrote a simple web-interface that searches for functions as you type, displaying a list of declaration lines, with a [show] link to show the full code of the function. I thought this might be useful to some people who constantly grep through the code to find out the arguments to a function. The site is available at: <http://mwref.werdn.us> The source code for the Perl script, and the website, is available in the 'mwref' directory on my git repository. Patches are most welcome! <http://gitweb.werdn.us/?p=scripts/.git;a=summary> (web interface) <git://werdn.us/scripts/> (git repository) A database dump of the extracted function data is available to download (~1 MB) from my server: <http://werdn.us/~andrew/mw_reference.sql.gz> Enjoy! -- Andrew Garrett _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l