DoxygenIt's been a few years, now, since I gave up using PHPDocumentor to document my PHP projects. I switched to Doxygen, an automated documentation tool that supports a wide variety of languages, including PHP. While PHPDocumentor enjoys broad support in the PHP community, Doxygen, too, is well entrenched. (Drupal uses it.)

I recently began a new project from scratch, and it gave me an opportunity to once again turn a hard gaze upon Doxygen. After some careful reflection on my experiences developing this new medium-sized library and documenting it with Doxygen, here are what I see as Doxygen's strong and weak points when it comes to PHP API documentation.