Pro PHP- Patterns, Frameworks, Testing and More

CHAPTER 7 ■ REFLECTION API^103

Using reflection, you can access and parse docblock comments. This chapter’s example

used the docblock tokenizer pecl extension to perform the parsing. Using docblock tags and

some algorithms, you can parse the data into usable arrays.

By extending the reflection API, you can integrate a docblock parser with the reflection

classes to create documenting reflection classes that interpret the data provided in PHPDoc

comments. Similarly, you can add reflection attributes.

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