Sphinx documentation collector

This library provides a tool for collecting different documentation roots from all over your project and combine them into one table of contents file, which will be your project documentation., _(*1)

Installing Sphinx

Install Python if necessary (at least version 2.6)
Install the easy_install for Python eggs (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools)
Run easy_install sphinx

Enable PDF

Run easy_install rst2pdf (more about that on http://rst2pdf.ralsina.com.ar/)
Configure Sphinx and rst2pdf (http://rst2pdf.ralsina.com.ar/handbook.html#sphinx)

For PHP and/or Symfony-related documentation

Install Sphinx PHP extensions by Fabien Potencier (https://github.com/fabpot/sphinx-php) using Composer:, _(*2)

composer require --dev fabpot/sphinx-php:1.*

Then add the extensions:, _(*3)

# in config.py

import sys

...

sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('../../vendor/fabpot/sphinx-php'))

extensions = [..., 'sensio.sphinx.refinclude', 'sensio.sphinx.configurationblock', 'sensio.sphinx.phpcode']

Configure the PHP lexer to work for code samples without a PHP open tag:, _(*4)

from sphinx.highlighting import lexers
from pygments.lexers.web import PhpLexer

# enable highlighting for PHP code not between ``<?php ... ?>`` by default
lexers['php'] = PhpLexer(startinline=True)
lexers['php-annotations'] = PhpLexer(startinline=True)

primary_domain = 'php'

# API URL
api_url = 'http://api.symfony.com/master/%s'

Usage

php bin/collect.php build/documentation --library-dir=src/Acme/*/ --library-dir=vendor/acme/*/

The first argument should be the Sphinx documentation directory. Then you need to supply one or more --library-dir options. Those will be used to scan for /meta/doc directories containing an index.rst file. For each of these "documentation roots" a symlink will be created in the build directory. Finally a fresh table of contents is automatically generated: it collects all the index.rst files from all over the project., _(*5)