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podlove/comment-introspection
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PHP library providing a toolkit to parse class and method comments.

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Podlove Comment Introspection
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[](#podlove-comment-introspection)

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PHP library providing a toolkit to parse class and method comments.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
use Podlove\Comment\Comment;

class ExampleClass {

    /**
     * A Title
     *
     * A multiline
     * description.
     *
     * @tag1
     * @tag2 tag2 description
     */
    public function foo() {
        return "bar";
    }
}

$reflectionClass = new ReflectionClass("ExampleClass");
$methods = $reflectionClass->getMethods();
$parsedMethods = array_map(function($method) {
    $c = new Comment($method->getDocComment());
    $c->parse();

    return [
        'methodname'  => $method->name,
        'title'       => $c->getTitle(),
        'description' => $c->getDescription(),
        'tags'        => $c->getTags()
        /**
         * You can also access specific tags like so:
         * $c->getTag('tag1') or
         * $c->getTags('param') if you use one tag multiple times
         */
    ];
}, $methods);
print_r($parsedMethods);

/* =>

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [methodname] => foo
            [title] => A Title
            [description] => A multiline
description.

            [tags] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Array
                        (
                            [name] => tag2
                            [description] => tag2 description
                            [line] => 6
                        )

                    [1] => Array
                        (
                            [name] => tag1
                            [description] =>
                            [line] => 5
                        )

                )

        )

)
*/
```

###  Health Score

25

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Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity20

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

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.

### Community

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