Re: doxygen or phpDocumentor?

Hi Darren, the pear install of phpDocumentor is not valid due to a bug in Archive_Tar (which packages things up). You can try a cvs snapshot if you'd like at http://developer.phpdoc.org/downloads Take care, Greg "Darren Cook" <darren@dcook.org> wrote in message news:3E1978FE.7060908@dcook.org... > Hi, > What are the advantages of using phpDocumentor over doxygen (or other > documentation tools) for PHP code? The advantages of doxygen for me is > that I also do C++ work and standardizing on one tool would be nice. > > Has anyone here used doxygen for documenting PHP code? I've used javadoc > before and intend to stick to javadoc-style tags even if using doxygen. > > BTW, I'm having trouble with the PhpDocumentor-1.2.0beta1 download (from > the pear.php.net site). See below. Are these bugs or did I fail to set > something up? > > Darren > > ------------------- > 1. The INSTALL file says to just do ./phpdoc, but that file isn't > there! "phpdoc.php" is closest but that outputs an HTML page. > > 2. So I moved the whole thing under /var/www/html and the web > interface works. It goes through and processes the files, but then fails > with this error: > > Sorting page elements...done > directory: > '/var/www/html/PhpDocumentor-1.2.0beta1/phpDocumentor/Converters/HTML/frames /templates/default/templates/media' > > not found > > That directory exists, but does not contain a file called "media". It > only contains these files: > blank.tpl class.tpl index.tpl page.tpl ric.tpl var.tpl > > That was "HTML:frames:default" I got a similar error using > "HTML:Smarty:default". Same error using phpdoc.php or new_phpdoc.php. > > 3. Minor bug: in new_phpdoc.php pressing the "Browse tree" button > resets the form. > > I'm using Redhat 8 and php4.2.2 RPM. I haven't (manually) installed any > other pear packages - do I need to? > >