Is there a standard way to document the expected class of entities inside a Collection in the docblock comment in a Doctrine project? Something like: /** * @var Collection<User> */ protect...

I could see this PHPDoc block in the FakerPHP/Faker package, and I'm not aware what does @template mean? you can find it in the package's main branch on this line /** * @template T of Extension\Ex...

I'm getting objects from JSON string in my PHP code. I want my IDE (NetBeans) to know the parameters of the objects without creating special class for them. Can I do it? It would look something lik...

At the moment on my PhpStorm I have the following options enabled: File | Settings | Editor | Inspections | Missing @return tag` -> Marked both options there (Ignore PHPDoc without @param + Ign...

After I create a method I use /**<enter> to generate the DocBlock. It auto fills the @param and @return for that function. Example: /** * * @param type $str * @return type */ public fun...

Is there a way to ask phpStorm to update the contents of a docblock? eg if I have the following code //------------------------------------------------------------------------- /** * @param strin...

I've always used annotations to declare return type. For example: /** * @return SomeClass */ public function () { ... } But now I see there's another way: public function () : SomeClass { ......

After many happy years coding in notepad++ and sublime, I've been advised to give a PHP IDE a go. I'm trying out phpStorm and it seems nice. The code completion and documentation is a great feature...

In PhpStorm, what is a quick way to collapse or expand all the comment (doc) blocks in a file? In the docs here it says: Folding and expanding code blocks works for entire classes, inner and anon...

I'm having a really hard time to get phpDocumentor 2 working. I have several files in procedural style, that must be documented. The only I found to do that is to use page-level docblocks, but it...

I would like to build some smaller scale but hightly customized documentation sites for a few projects. PhpDocumentor is pretty great but it is very heavy. I thought about trying to tweak the...

Lets say I have a function (obviously a trivial example): public function dot(){ return implode('.', func_get_args()); } Now I know I could modify this to be public function dot(array $items)...

Although this question is about DocBlocks in general, my use-case is about PHP. Consider the following PHP code: <?php class ParentClass { /** * Says 'hi' to the world. * @return ParentCla...

Possible Duplicate: Is there a way for phpDoc to document an array of objects as a parameter? I've been searching, and looked at the phpDocumentor documentation but cannot find if the...

I am confused about when to use the null as a type when describing variables with PHPDoc. Are type hints supposed to describe hopes and expectations for external callers to anticipate and comply wi...

When using automatic php docblock generation in PhpStorm, I ended up with the @static annotation on a static method: /** * Reset the singleton instance, for the tests only * @static */ public s...

Is it possible to generate Doctrine 2 entities, with the relevant docblock annotations, from an existing database schema?

I'm quite familiar with PHP dockblocks since it's been my job for the last 15+ years. /** * Description * * @tag bla bla * @tag more bla bla */ What I'm trying to understand is if there is ...