Automatic PHP Documentation Generator

Question

I am looking at any document generator for PHP that can actually read the source code and generate the documentation - instead of writing comments according to what the generator needs the format to be like.

I've looked at phpDocumentor and several other documentation generators: all require the need of writing comments into the source code.

Answer 1

Look at PHP documenter http://www.phpdoc.org/

Answer 2

PHP Documentor should actually be able to create a minimal documentation of your code without any of the tags or docblocks.

However, if you want to get lots of nice meta-information about your code, and also a reasonable styling of your documentation, then you really should be using docblocks and tags to describe your code with...