Hello,

I am about to encode my first project using Nu-Coder, and will be encoding it to a new directory as directed in project properties. There's also an option as to whether or not to leave in PHPDoc comments, and I'm not sure if I would need to or not.

It would definitely cut file sizes, and I won't be using these files for development purposes (for code hinting, etc.). However, I noticed in the manual this section:



I am not that familiar with PHP's reflection API, but is this referring to some methods of it that use php doc comments? Or is it referring to functionality within PhpEd?

Just based on what I've written here, is it safe for me to assume I can strip php-doc comments without breaking anything?

Thanks for the help, I'm looking forward to finally deploying an encoded product!
-Eric

You may want to check this manual page http://www.php.net/language.oop5.reflection to see how phpdoc is used with reflection, then decide if it's what you need to keep on or off when you encode your files.
Regarding PhpED and debugger, this feature has absolutely no effect.

Hey dmitri, thanks for the reply. After posting my original question I did make it over the the Reflection manual, and it looks to me like the only method that uses the doc block is getDocComment(). Do you (or anyone else) know of any other method besides this one to look out for?

So I guess I should refine my question to this - since I don't use getDocComment() in any of my application, is it safe to strip the doc blocks?

Thanks again for advising a total newbie to this whole process!

It is safe to strip phpdocs even if you use that method. It will work as if no phpdocs did not appear in your code. In other words an empty string will be returned.

Great - thank you!