Anything better than PHPDoc out there?

Question

Does anybody use anything else to document their PHP code than PHPDoc? Are there any tools that read the same documentation syntax but give richer output?

Answer 1

Doxygen (www.doxygen.org).

Answer 2

I´ll go for doxygen too.

Here are several reasons :

• compatible with phpdoc tags and other popular ones : it´s interoperable
• works with various programming languages : a better time investment
• there is alternative syntaxes : can choose the commenting style that suit you
• very efficient with advanced formating / tagging / metadata
• there is a GUI that is not linked to any IDE and an eclipse plugin as well

And still free, multiplatform, and open source :-)

It´s easy to learn, but harder that phpdoc because a lot richer.

Answer 3

I am using Doxygen too - you get used to the various keywords really fast - they are kind of self-explaining. ;)

RubyDoc is nice too, I espcially like they layout of the rdocs.