Automatic PHP Documentation Generation?

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davr picture davr · Oct 10, 2008 · Viewed 48.2k times · Source

For ActionScript 2, I've used NaturalDocs. However it has pretty poor support for PHP. I've looked so far at doxygen and phpDocumentor, but their output is pretty ugly in my opinion. Does anyone have any experience with automatic documentation generation for PHP? I'd prefer to be able to use javadoc-style tags, they are short to write and easy to remember.

Answer

M A Hossain Tonu picture M A Hossain Tonu · Dec 31, 2011

ApiGen

http://apigen.org/

ApiGen has support for PHP 5.3 namespaces, packages, linking between documentation, cross referencing to PHP standard classes and general documentation, creation of highlighted source code and experimental support for PHP 5.4 traits.

DocBlox

http://www.docblox-project.org/

PHP 5.3 compatible API Documentation generator aimed at projects of all sizes and Continuous Integration.

able to fully parse and transform Zend Framework 2

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