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I'm searching for a documentation generation software like phpDocumentor or phpDox for scripts written in PHP.

As both mentioned softwares are running with root permissions (apparently), I can't use them because I'm on a shared server, so the installation on a shared server is the most important point in my search.

I'm allowed to run some shell scripts but not all commands. So I can e.g. use nothing that requires root permissions, which also includes "installing packages". This makes a web-based solution preferable.

Many thanks in advance!

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  • As I'm informed, that should be possible with the built-in reflection API without the need of some additional tools: "PHP 5 comes with a complete reflection API that adds the ability to reverse-engineer classes, interfaces, functions, methods and extensions. Additionally, the reflection API offers ways to retrieve doc comments for functions, classes and methods." (source)
    – Izzy
    Commented Mar 17, 2015 at 9:59
  • Good idea, but with this (I already used this to get some child classes) I'd need to script the documentation by myself. With all styles and so on. But I will give it a try, although I'd appreciate more recommendations for softwares.
    – alve89
    Commented Mar 17, 2015 at 11:42
  • Some references for that: How to create documentation using Reflection / What is Reflection in PHP? – and phpDocumentor/Reflection could be the "documentation generation software" you're looking for (not tried myself, hence a comment and not an answer).
    – Izzy
    Commented Mar 17, 2015 at 12:19
  • Looks quite interesting, may be this works. Thank you!
    – alve89
    Commented Mar 17, 2015 at 17:16
  • My thoughts (as I may be in need of something like that as well to get up-to-date – still using the very same tool I've used for about 15 years now, and that hasn't been updated for a while ;)
    – Izzy
    Commented Mar 17, 2015 at 17:30

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I would highly recommend http://phpfui.com for this. Runs as a PHP script right on your server. Will produce static files if you need them for high volume sites. Easy to install and set up. Maybe 2 minutes to usable documentation for your code and all the third party code you use in your app.

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