Re: php class documenting tool
| From: | Lars Torben Wilson | Date: | Wed, 18 Oct 2000 23:31:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: php class documenting tool | ||
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Christian Calloway writes:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I developed a Javadoc-like tool for parsing and documenting PHP class
> definitions. Its written completely in Java (I know it probably would have
> been more poetic to write the thing in PHP) and is still in a very early
> beta stage. I was wondering if anyone is interested in testing it and giving
> me some general feedback; I would really like to know what people would need
> in such a tool. Just to give a little background, the application works
> almost exactly like Javadoc, and is thus named phpdoc. For anyone familiar
> with Javadoc1.3, phpdoc also support Javadoc's idea of doclets, which allow
> you to plugin your own Java extension that can format the gathered class
> data however you wish. Theres more, but you can view the rest at
> http:\\www.callowayprints.com\phpdoc\phpdoc.php, where you can
> download a
> jar containing the application. There are instructions at the above URL for
> installing and using the application, be warned, you should know how to
> change your classpath enviroment variable. Anyways, thanks to anyone who
> tries it out, and Ille release source to anyone whom requests it,
>
> Christian Calloway
There is a project included with the PHP source for this:
pear/PHPDoc. I don't know how mature it is--never used it--but I
wonder whether if if might be useful to somehow align effort on the
two projects?
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