type-lang/phpdoc

Library for recognizing PHPDoc annotations in PHP DocBlock comments

2.0.0-beta1 2026-07-12 18:26 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.4
• type-lang/parser: ^2.0

Requires (Dev)

• phpstan/phpdoc-parser: ^2.3
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.2.5
• phpunit/phpunit: ^13.2.4

MIT

• phpdoc
• php
• dictionary
• language
• tags
• docblock

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-07-12 18:43 UTC

README

The reference PHPDoc parser for TypeLang. It turns a raw /** ... */ comment into an immutable, iterable object graph of its description and tags.

Full documentation is available at typelang.dev.

Installation

Install the package via Composer:

composer require type-lang/phpdoc

Requirements:

• PHP 8.4+

Usage

DocBlockParser::parse() returns a DocBlock — an immutable collection of the comment's description and tags:

use TypeLang\PhpDoc\DocBlockParser;

$parser = new DocBlockParser();

$block = $parser->parse(<<<'PHPDOC'
    /**
     * Sends a notification to the given recipient.
     *
     * @see Mailer::send() The underlying transport.
     * @link https://example.com/docs Delivery documentation.
     * @return bool
     */
    PHPDOC);

// The leading description (everything before the first tag)
echo $block->description;
// "Sends a notification to the given recipient."

// Tags form an ordered, countable, iterable collection
echo \count($block); // 3

foreach ($block as $tag) {
    echo $tag->name; // "see", "link", "return"
}

// Known tags expose their parsed parts
$see = $block[0]; // SeeTag
echo $see->reference; // "Mailer::send()"

Structure

A DocBlock is composed of three kinds of elements:

• DocBlock — the whole comment; behaves as a Countable, IteratorAggregate and ArrayAccess collection of its tags.
• Description — the leading text. A plain Description is just a string; a TaggedDescription also holds inline tags like {@see ...}.
• Tag — a name (without the leading @) and an optional description. Known tags (@see, @link, ...) extend the base Tag with their own parsed parts; an unregistered tag keeps its whole suffix as the description.

See the documentation for the full list of supported tags.