phpDocumentor/ReflectionDocBlock

Health v2 · maintenance only

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9361 stars · 135 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A PHP library from the phpDocumentor project that parses DocBlocks (doc comments) into structured objects, fully compatible with the PHPDoc standard. It exposes a DocBlockFactory that yields objects giving access to summaries, descriptions, and tags so other libraries can read or support annotations embedded in DocBlocks.

Use cases

• parse phpdoc docblocks in php
• extract summary and tags from doc comments
• read annotations embedded in docblocks
• php library to parse doc comment tags
• interpret phpdoc standard comments programmatically
• build annotation support for a php framework

When to choose

• You need a PHPDoc-standard-compliant DocBlock parser for a PHP library or tool
• You want to read summaries, descriptions, and tags from doc comments as objects
• Your framework or package should support annotations written in DocBlocks

When to avoid

• You need a full API documentation generator rather than a parsing component (use phpDocumentor itself)
• You only need modern native PHP attributes instead of DocBlock-based annotations
• You are not working in PHP

Facets

library · maturity stable

parser documentation documentation developer-tools parsers php docblock phpdoc annotations reflection doc-comment-parser composer-package phpdocumentor

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