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Anodoc is a lightweight doc comment/block parser written in PHP. Doc comments are usually written in the style

<?php
/**
 * A test summary
 *
 * And here's a longer description that explains in detail
 * what this section is all about.
 *
 * @param  foo bar
 * @param  boo far
 * @return baz
 */
?>

and are created to document source code. Anodoc parses these comments so you can access the description, the short description, the long description, and the tags.

Usage

For the example doc comment before, you can get the data like:

<?php
$parser = new Anodoc\Parser;

// This returns a new Anodoc\DocComment object.
$doc = $parser->parse(
	"/**\n" .
	" * A test summary\n" .
	" *\n" .
	" * And here's a longer description that explains in detail\n" .
	" * what this section is all about.\n" .
	" *\n" .
	" * @param  foo bar\n" .
	" * @param  boo far\n" .
	" * @return baz\n" .
	" */"
);

echo $doc->getShortDescription();
// "A test summary"

echo $doc->getLongDescription();
// And here's a longer description that explains in detail
// what this section is all about.

echo $doc->getTagValue('return');
// baz

$doc->getTag('return');
// A Tag object with value 'baz'

echo $doc->getTagValue('param'); // this will return the last defined value
// boo far

var_dump($doc->getTags('param'));
// a dump of a TagGroup that has 2 values

?>

You can also get all the docComments on a class by using Anodoc

<?php

// Factory instantiates a new Anodoc object
// With a Parser
$anodoc = Anodoc::getNew();

$classDoc = $anodoc->getDoc('FooClass');

// Get the main class doc comment description
echo $classDoc->getMainDoc();

// Get the doc comment for method FooClass::fooMethod()
$classDoc->getMethodDoc('fooMethod')

// Get the doc comment for the attribute $bar
$classDoc->getAttributeDoc('bar');
?>

Custom Tags

Anodoc does not define any syntactic customizations for tag values. By default, each value retrieved from the parser returns an instance of Anodoc\Tags\GenericTag. You can register a new Tag type by creating a class that extends the abstract class 'Anodoc\Tags\Tag' and registering it through the parser or Anodoc object. Then you can set your custom syntax there.

For example, Anodoc comes with a custom tag for handling params named "Anodoc\Tags\ParamTag". The definition is:

<?php

namespace Anodoc\Tags;

class ParamTag extends Tag {

  private $tag_name, $value;

  function __construct($tag_name, $value) {
    preg_match('/(\w+)\s+\$(\w+)\s+(.+)/ms', $value, $matches);
    $this->value = array(
      'type' => $matches[1],
      'name' => $matches[2],
      'description' => $matches[3]
    );
    $this->tag_name = $tag_name;
  }

  function getValue() {
    return $this->value;
  }

  function getTagName() {
    return $this->tag_name;
  }

  function __toString() {
    return (string) $this->value;
  }

}
?>

This is not registered by default so you must register it yourself to be useful.

<?php

$anodoc = Anodoc::getNew();
$anodoc->registerTag('param', 'Anodoc\Tags\ParamTag');
$classDoc = $anodoc->getDoc('FooClass');

$param = $classDoc->getMethodDoc('fooMethod')->getTag('param');
// returns an 'Anodoc\Tags\ParamTag' object

$param->getValue();
// if the param tag looks like this:
//     @param string $firstName the first name of the person
// The value would be:
// array(
//     'type' => 'string', 'name' => 'firstName',
//     'description' => 'the first name of the person'
// )

?>

Limitations

Anodoc doesn't parse inline tags as of the moment.