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    ReflectionDocBlock

    Introduction

    The ReflectionDocBlock component of phpDocumentor provides a DocBlock parser that is 100% compatible with the PHPDoc standard.

    With this component, a library can provide support for annotations via DocBlocks or otherwise retrieve information that is embedded in a DocBlock.

    Installation

    composer require phpdocumentor/reflection-docblock 

    Usage

    In order to parse the DocBlock one needs a DocBlockFactory that can be instantiated using its createInstance factory method like this:

    $factory = \phpDocumentor\Reflection\DocBlockFactory::createInstance();

    Then we can use the create method of the factory to interpret the DocBlock. Please note that it is also possible to provide a class that has the getDocComment() method, such as an object of type ReflectionClass, the create method will read that if it exists.

    $docComment = <<<DOCCOMMENT /** * This is an example of a summary. * * This is a Description. A Summary and Description are separated by either * two subsequent newlines (thus a whiteline in between as can be seen in this * example), or when the Summary ends with a dot (`.`) and some form of * whitespace. */ DOCCOMMENT; $docblock = $factory->create($docComment);

    The create method will yield an object of type \phpDocumentor\Reflection\DocBlock whose methods can be queried:

    // Contains the summary for this DocBlock $summary = $docblock->getSummary(); // Contains \phpDocumentor\Reflection\DocBlock\Description object $description = $docblock->getDescription(); // You can either cast it to string $description = (string) $docblock->getDescription(); // Or use the render method to get a string representation of the Description. $description = $docblock->getDescription()->render();

    For more examples it would be best to review the scripts in the /examples folder.

Namespaces
\phpDocumentor\Reflection\DocBlock
\phpDocumentor\Reflection\Exception
\phpDocumentor\Reflection\PseudoTypes
\phpDocumentor\Reflection\Types
Classes
phpDocumentor\Reflection\DocBlock
phpDocumentor\Reflection\DocBlockFactory
phpDocumentor\Reflection\DocBlockFactoryInterface
phpDocumentor\Reflection\Element
phpDocumentor\Reflection\File
phpDocumentor\Reflection\Fqsen
phpDocumentor\Reflection\FqsenResolver
phpDocumentor\Reflection\Location
phpDocumentor\Reflection\Project
phpDocumentor\Reflection\ProjectFactory
phpDocumentor\Reflection\PseudoType
phpDocumentor\Reflection\Type
phpDocumentor\Reflection\TypeResolver
phpDocumentor\Reflection\Utils
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