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Programming language: PHP
License: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
Tags: Documentation     API     Phpdoc     Generator    
Latest version: v5.0.0

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README

Smart and Readable Documentation for PHP projects

ApiGen is easy to use and modern API doc generator supporting all PHP 8.2 features.

Features

Built on Shoulders of Giants

Install

With Docker

ApiGen is available as apigen/apigen Docker image which you can directly use.

docker run --rm --interactive --tty --volume "$PWD:$PWD" --workdir "$PWD" \
  apigen/apigen:edge \
  src --output docs

With Phar

This will install ApiGen phar binary to tools/apigen.

mkdir -p tools
curl -L https://github.com/ApiGen/ApiGen/releases/download/v7.0.0-alpha.3/apigen.phar -o tools/apigen
chmod +x tools/apigen
tools/apigen src --output docs

With Composer

This will install ApiGen to tools/apigen directory with executable entry point available in tools/apigen/bin/apigen.

composer create-project --no-dev apigen/apigen:^7.0@alpha tools/apigen
tools/apigen/bin/apigen src --output docs

Usage

Generate API docs by passing source directories and destination option:

apigen src --output docs

Configuration

ApiGen can be configured with apigen.neon configuration file.

parameters:
  # string[], passed as arguments in CLI, e.g. ['src']
  paths: []

  # string[], --include in CLI, included files mask, e.g. ['*.php']
  include: ['*.php']

  # string[], --exclude in CLI, excluded files mask, e.g. ['tests/**']
  exclude: []

  # bool, should protected members be excluded?
  excludeProtected: false

  # bool, should private members be excluded?
  excludePrivate: true

  # string[], list of tags used for excluding class-likes and members
  excludeTagged: ['internal']

  # string, --output in CLI
  outputDir: '%workingDir%/api'

  # string | null, --theme in CLI
  themeDir: null

  # string, --title in CLI
  title: 'API Documentation'

  # string, --base-url in CLI
  baseUrl: ''

  # int, --workers in CLI, number of processes that will be forked for parallel rendering
  workerCount: 8

  # string, --memory-limit in CLI
  memoryLimit: '512M'

Performance

To achieve the best performance you need

  • pcntl extension (required for parallel rendering) and
  • opcache extension with enabled JIT