Comments in PHPdoc style

Comments in PHPdoc style

by Gustav W Delius -
Number of replies: 9
Should we ammend point 7 in the coding style guidelines to say that comments following the PHPdoc style are encouraged? This would allow automatic generation of documentation.
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Re: Comments in PHPdoc style

by Howard Miller -
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Definitely agree. Many already are, of course, but the *quality* varies quite a bit. I'd be happy to write/steal a few lines.

In fact I'm doing it now smile
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Re: Comments in PHPdoc style

by Dirk Herr-Hoyman -
Yes, please do.

My dev team is using a similar technique for ActionScript. I'll have no
trouble enforcing PHPdoc here!
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Re: Comments in PHPdoc style

by Mike Churchward -
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So, I guess we need to update existing documentation in each function we touch?

mike
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Re: Comments in PHPdoc style

by Daryl Hawes -
Howard and Mike,
I went through and added skeletal phpdoc comments in as many main libs and classes as I had time to with the hope that developers would see the format and choose to expand the comments that have todo tags and add comments to new functions as added. As you add new functions or make edits to a function please add or expand on existing phpdoc comments.

I've added a guidelines document to cvs contrib, your feedback is welcome:
cvs:/contrib/php_doc_guidelines/moodle-phpdoc-guidelines.html
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Re: Comments in PHPdoc style

by Marcus Green -
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It's none of my business as I have never contributed code to Moodle, but PHPDoc is a very, very good idea.
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Re: Comments in PHPdoc style

by Daryl Hawes -
I've posted phpdoc output from a full run against the entire Moodle 1.6dev code. Developers, here is an example as to why you should be including good phpdoc comments for every new function, define, class and file and why you should be updating the comments on functions as you use them.

http://moodle.sourceforge.net/dhawes-phpdoc