Mike van Riel

DocBlox

  • DocBlox is unmasked … it is really phpDocumentor 2!

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    Announcing phpDocumentor 2 — the merging of the old (phpDocumentor) and the new (DocBlox). With the first alpha release of phpDocumentor (2.0.0a1), the new “Responsive” default template sports a new page layout, along with the useful layout improvements that the original DocBlox templates provided (which remain available) over the old phpDocumentor templates (which will retire…

  • Multiple types of opening braces when matching pairs with the tokenizer/ext

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    Whilst I was testing DocBlox on the Solar Framework I found a bug in the part of the application where I match the curly brace pairs of structures (like classes, functions, methods, etc). Every time a variable was imported in a string using the {$var} notation my algorithm thought that the function/method had ended at the…

  • Introducing: DocBlox

    Introducing: DocBlox

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    Mike van Riel
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    Ever since I discovered phpDocumentor I have been fascinated by the idea of automatic Documentation Generation. Especially for large projects where an in-depth understanding of the code is a requirement. Unfortunately, the more I got to work with phpDocumentor the more issues surfaced with its performance, ease of use and above all: memory usage. Over…