On NuCleuZ's weblog today, he has this new post for all of those OS X Tiger users out there looking for a quick way to do lookups on the PHP manual - a PHP Dashboard Widget.

I got Tiger installed and working this week ( more on that in another post ) and have been playing with Dashboard widgets. Since they are just HTML + Javascript I had to create one to see what this was all about, and the result is now ready for download at my new Dashboard page.

The widget is a implementation of the phpm CLI application that display functions, their parameters and a short description. The widget implementation of phpm retrieves information in XML format from eide.org and display it in the widget.

Of course, this is just the first release for the widget, so there are still bugs/issues to be worked out, but it's definitely a promising tool. I love the fact that it's not just links to the information, but a parse of the output of the phpm app, giving the parameters and details for each of the functions.

So, all of you Tiger users out there, get over, download the Widget and get to testing it. Gotta love Dashboard...