RELEASE: PHPDocumentor Beta, automatic documentation project

April 13, 2002

ANNOUNCEMENT
PHPDocumentor Beta 0.4.0 RELEASE
http://www.phpdoc.org

The development team at http://www.phpdoc.org would like to announce the
release of PHPDocumentor Beta 0.4.0.  This program is the first
fully-functional automatic documentor for PHP written in PHP.  There are a
few other automatic documentors, but most either do not properly document a
majority of valid PHP files, or are front-end converters to other
documentors like JavaDoc.

PHPDocumentor features:
* close compliance to the JavaDoc protocol, will be very familiar to Java
developers
* simple, easy-to-design templates allowing for flexible output format
* automatic documenting at the element, page, and package level
* full inherited documentation from parent classes with correct
documentation of overridden methods and variables
* automatic linking to inherited parent classes, methods, and variables
* class trees with links to documentation
* element indexes, both total and by package
* the most advanced implementation of @see and {@link} out there for a PHP
documentor
* complete HOWTO and Tag Specification documentation, with release and
available online at http://www.phpdoc.org
* parsing into subdirectories for packages and subpackages
* many more, see the documentation for information
* of course, Open Source and GPL