Doxygen: how to describe class member variables in php?

Question

I\'m trying to use doxygen to parse php code into xml output. Doxygen does not parse description of class member variables.

Here is my sample php file:

Answer 1

I am using an input filter to insert typehints from the @var annotation inline with variable declaration, and remove the @var annotation as it has different meaning in Doxygen. For more info, see bug #626105.

As Doxygen uses C-like parser, when the input filter is run it can recognize types.

This is a quick hack, and probably have bugs, it just works for my code:

You can enable input filter with INPUT_FILTER option in your Doxyfile. Save the code above to file named php_var_filter.php and set the filter value to "php php_var_filter.php".