This is a very simple documentation generator for the
Elefant CMS. It uses PHP's
Reflection classes to produce JavaDoc-style output from
Elefant's core classes., (*1)
This is not meant as a full replacement for phpDoc or
ApiGen, but rather a simple solution that we can more
easily integrate into our website., (*2)
I wrote this for a few reasons:, (*3)
- I don't like the "interactive" elements in the output of the new phpDoc
- I kept running into issues with ApiGen's code generation, and their Texy markup is inferior to Markdown
- I want a more human-friendly comment format than they both allow
- Documentation generation is pretty easy and even fun with PHP's Reflection capabilities
For a live example of this app in use, visit:, (*4)
http://api.elefantcms.com/, (*5)
To make the routes work well, add these to the [Alias]
section in conf/routes.php
:, (*6)
/api = /visor
/helpers = /visor/helpers
/helper = /visor/helper