Can a more up to date documentation generator be incorporated into PHPEd?

The current generator, PHPDocumentor, does NOT support PHP 5.3 and has not been actively maintained for over 3 years.

Here are some alternatives:

• phpdoctor
  
• phpdox
  
• Docblox
  
• Doxygen
  

EDIT:
Links removed because they were obfuscated by the forum.

Yep, you're right.
But there is nothing specific in PhpED to let it run PHP Documentor only. You can easily integrate it with something else that would work from a command line and understands certain parameters -- which you'll set in Tools->Settings->Integration.

What might be nice, is to have a selection of the most popular (such as hurrakan's list as an example) and allow it to be set in the project properties dialog.

I started looking at doxygen (which IMO, looks to be the better replacement for phpDocumentor from the list above) but some of the keywords and the syntax is different. If we could specify a preferred documentation engine for a project.. when creating dox-style comments, it could adjust to use the selected syntax style, currently this appears to be fixed to phpDocumentor-style @keyword, whereas doxygen appears to use \keyword (I've only had a quick glance, so hoping I'm right here) Also code-completion for the selected engine would be really nice too like we already have for phpDocumentor.



Cheers..

Ian

Just saw an interesting article about DocBlox published on phpdeveloper.org.

This forum is not very useful if we can't post links.

Luckily it's very easy to work around:

http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/16672

(you'll have to copy/paste though)

I think you can show links after you've a certain number of posts, maybe to make sure you are not a spammer:

http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/16672

Fortunately PHPDoc is still used by most of the projects that I work with, but I would certainly be interested in a more modern standard being supported by PhpED.

Whilst it is possible to use anything we like with external utilities, having PhpED use the documentation method (for code hints, etc.) is surely very useful?

A deeper look at DocBlox:

http://www.dragonbe.com/2011/08/quality-assurance-on-php-projects.html