PHP Documentation Generator
PHP Documentation Generator is a Perl script similar to javadoc. It helps you generate a set of HTML pages from comments in PHP source files. Currently, this script parses the PHP source code to detect the objects attached to the comments.
| Licenses | GPL |
|---|---|
| Implementation | PHP |
Recent releases
- 20 Feb 2007 01:41
Changes: Several bugfixes were made. A Debian package is now available.
- 30 Mar 2003 17:21
Changes: Support for tag aliases (@variable for @attribute, @var for @variable, etc.), an experimental feature to type the comment just after the type tags, and minor bugfixes.
- 26 Mar 2003 12:20
Changes: Major bugfixes that prevent the script from crashing, multi-language support, and new commandline options -x and -X.
- 12 Mar 2003 08:50
Changes: Themes were introduced in the HTML generator. Minor bug fixes were made.
- 06 Mar 2003 09:02
Changes: PHP comments which start with a "#" character are now supported by the PHP parser. Minor bug fixes were made inside the highlighting parser.
- All comments
Recent commentsRe: Why another one?
> Looking at the PHP Documentation
> Generator home page left me unclear as
> to why we need yet another PHP
> documentation tool. We already have
> phpDoc, phpDocumentor, and others as
> well. While phpDoc seems kind of dead
> (hasn't been updated since May, 2000),
> phpDocumentor is very much alive - and
> it works very well.
phpDoc and phpDocumentor (and other tools as docxp...)
are very interesting and powerful. But they are written
in PHP for PHP. Because I would not use PHP to run
my scripts, and because this script will be used by my
students, I wrote a generator in Perl (which is installed by
default in a lot of systems - this is not the case of PHP).
My contribution is new on this point: the script needs a Perl
interpreter.
Why another one?
Looking at the PHP Documentation Generator home page left me unclear as to why we need yet another PHP documentation tool. We already have phpDoc (http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpdoc/), phpDocumentor (http://phpdocu.sourceforge.net/), and others as well. While phpDoc seems kind of dead (hasn't been updated since May, 2000), phpDocumentor is very much alive - and it works very well.