phpDocumentor Reviews & Product Details

- Ease of use

- Direct documentation generation from code & source comments visibility

- Direct connection to the class/namespace hierarchy

- I've doung the UML generation feature to be quite useful as we use modeling tools

- Relatively easy configuration even for legacy projects & drop-in support via PHARs (nice!)

- I like the fact that you stand by your code by generating your own docs with PHPDocumentor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've found it a bit hard to control how things are organized in the end result. For e.g. custom ordering of classes/namespaces would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The facility that the tool proposed me to generate the documentation directly from the source of the php code leaving my project more robust and authorial, using the javadoc tool that I can add relevant comments and discard repetitive documentation, forming a single documentation in several formats, with a great goal for me to provide all the tools and resources needed to write effective and comprehensive documentation with the least possible effort. Having a flexible template system allowing you to change your output in different ways and with various models, frameworks, pluggable architectures, such as WordPress or PyroCms, among others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There were no negative things during my use. The software has functionalities with functions that add a lot to the organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I start using phpDocumentor since 2010. And this tool very helpful for documenting my PHP library. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For me, there were no downside from phpDocumentor. But just need discipline to run it to update the code documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

phpDocumentor is a really popular code documentation tool and format for PHP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the biggest annoyances of PhpDocumentor was trying to write DocBook-ish documentation for part of the manual, and docblock documentation for another part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is helpful because we can navigate them faster than code files, and get very nice documentation that can be handed out to all developers on the eam, third party service providers or new people on your team without much additional work.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its almost outdated.. There is no significant development or enhancement anymore Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of UI and the overall content is very knowledgable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Along with the topics, there should be more examples. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy syntax

Supported by IDEs

Embedded into the code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No support for parameters with nested typed arrays neither for key-value arrays. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Automat generating comments. The comments have the correct structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The comments in very rare cases are needed from correction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like its functionality itself, it is a tool that allows us to self-document the code that we have written in the PHP language and this is done automatically using the source code. I really like that by making use of a tool like this for all the code that we program, it allows us to have as a kind of documentation template that our codes have and to be able to understand more easily what is programmed and what functions They are the ones found in each section, I really like that using this tool allows us to easily continue the code left by some other programmer or that some collaborator easily continue the code created by us since it allows us to have a good documentation. I also like very much that allows us to migrate the entire code to an HTML file with a great degree of detail of everything, from comments to functions, variables, among other things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Basically the only negative is the small community that it has and that perhaps is not a tool that has yet been given the recognition it deserves but the truth is a tool that forces the programmer to have a good coding practice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Php documentor has multiples templates in order to have the documentation nicer to the user view.

- Php documentor is able to interpretate the information in order to create graphs and reports.

- Php documentor has an important section to report all the `TODO` that are places in the code.

- Php documentor create the entire wiki for all the functions; even the constructor and constants for each class. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Despite it has multiples templates, looks like the templates are too old to the current html tools.

- The installation is not easy to make. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.