Archived.

I'm archiving this project, but I'll keep it up if anyone wants to fork it. The last time I tried ig with phpdoc was version 2.9.0, so I'm pretty sure it will no longer with with version 3.x

phpDocumentor markdown template

phpDocumentor template that generates Markdown documentation.

This is basically a markdown version of phpDocumentor's Clean template.

The main use-case for this template is to generate simple and nice looking usage documentation, that can then be published on GitHub/GitLab.

For example, a small library can document it's public API in DocBlock comments, use this template to generate the Markdown documentation and then commit it to GitHub with the library to easily create a nice looking documentation for other developers to see.

Installation

Install with composer:

composer require fr3nch13/phpdoc-markdown

Usage

Run phpDocumentor and set template as vendor/fr3nch13/phpdoc-markdown/data/templates/markdown.

This requires the usage of the phpdoc.xml file as phpDocumentor only generates html files, and they need to be changed to md files, and the links in the generated templates need to be modified. This is done using a php script in the bin/directory that uses the phpdoc.xml file to know where the generated templates are located.

Example using configuration file:

Add a file called phpdoc.xml with the following content to the root of your project and invoke the phpdoc command without arguments. Modify the configuration to suit your project.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<phpdoc>
    <title>My Project Documentation</title>
    <parser>
        <target>build</target>
    </parser>
    <transformer>
        <target>docs</target>
    </transformer>
    <transformations>
        <template name="vendor/fr3nch13/phpdoc-markdown/data/templates/markdown" />
    </transformations>
    <files>
        <directory>src</directory>
        <ignore>test/*</ignore>
    </files>
</phpdoc>

After you've created the phpdoc.xml, you can now run phpdoc without arguments, then run the php script to fix the generated files.

$ vendor/bin/phpdoc && php vendor/fr3nch13/phpdoc-markdown/bin/fixHtmltoMd.php

Or, you can add it to your composer.json scripts section, this is how I do it.

"scripts": {
    "phpdoc": [
        "export COMPOSER_PROCESS_TIMEOUT=9000",
        "@phpdoc-run",
        "@phpdoc-fix"
    ],
    "phpdoc-run": "vendor/bin/phpdoc -v",
    "phpdoc-fix": "php vendor/fr3nch13/phpdoc-markdown/bin/fixHtmlToMd.php"
}

Then run:

$ composer phpdoc

More information about configuring phpDocumentor.

Packagist: fr3nch13/phpdoc-markdown