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dannykopping/docblock
=====================

A simple library for parsing PHP DocBlock comments

0.5.2(12y ago)191.8k12MITPHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since Oct 5Pushed 12y ago2 watchersCompare

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PHP DocBlock *Lite*
===================

[](#php-docblock-lite)

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### WTF is a DocBlock?

[](#wtf-is-a-docblock)

A DocBlock is a block comment in PHP (with optional annotations):

```
/**
* Optional DocBlock comment
*
* @annotation	I'm an annotation!
*/
```

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Download or clone the repository and add a `require_once` statement to include the `Parser` class.

```

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

phpDBL (PHP DocBlock Lite) uses the `Reflection` API (available from PHP 5) to allow you to retrieve the DocBlock comments. phpDBL will then inspect all the methods available in any given class and examine their DocBlocks.

```

```

You can also retrieve a list of given annotations:

```

```

Which will produce:

```
test
@param
Array
(
    [0] => $data
    [1] => The data to be passed in
)
```

Full Example
------------

[](#full-example)

```

```

Contact
-------

[](#contact)

Feel free to suggest feature requests by creating an "Issue" or by forking the repo, making the changes yourself and sending me a pull request.

###  Health Score

30

—

LowBetter than 62% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity24

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity53

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~93 days

Recently: every ~135 days

Total

7

Last Release

4461d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/373762?v=4)[Danny Kopping](/maintainers/dannykopping)[@dannykopping](https://github.com/dannykopping)

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Top Contributors

[![dannykopping](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/373762?v=4)](https://github.com/dannykopping "dannykopping (39 commits)")

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Tags

parserreflectiondocblockparse

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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