ReflectionDocBlock

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. In order to parse the DocBlock one needs a DocBlockFactory that can be instantiated using its createInstance factory method. 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. The create method will yield an object of type \phpDocumentor\Reflection\DocBlock whose methods can be queried. The composer requires phpdocumentor/reflection-docblock.