Open Source PHP Documentation Software

Doxygen is a JavaDoc like documentation system for C++, C, Java and IDL.

TestLink is a web based Test Management tool. The application provides Test specification, Test plans and execution, Reporting, Requirements specification and collaborate with well-known bug trackers. Repository: https://github.com/TestLinkOpenSourceTRMS

BookStack is a free and open source platform for storing and organising information and documentation. A self-hosted and opinionated wiki system, BookStack is simple and easy to use, giving even new users with just basic word-processing skills a pleasant out of the box experience. BookStack offers a relaxed, open and positive approach. While the platform can provide advanced power features to those who want them, it is primarily designed not to be extensible outside of its core purpose. That being said, BookStack already comes with plenty of powerful features, such as search and linking, cross-book sorting, image management and more. It is also multi-lingual and offers options for authentication integration.

The NelmioApiDocBundle bundle allows you to generate documentation in the OpenAPI (Swagger) format and provides a sandbox to interactively experiment with the API. This bundle supports Symfony route requirements, PHP annotations, Swagger-Php annotations, FOSRestBundle annotations, and apps using API-Platform. For models, it supports the Symfony serializer, the JMS serializer and the willdurand/Hateoas library. It does also support Symfony form types. It generates OpenAPI documentation from your Symfony app thanks to Describers. One extracts data from SwaggerPHP annotations, one from your routes, etc. You can configure global information in the bundle configuration documentation.info section. Open a command console, enter your project directory and execute the provided command to download the latest version of this bundle.

Daux.io is a documentation generator that uses a simple folder structure and Markdown files to create custom documentation on the fly. It helps you create great-looking documentation in a developer-friendly way. 100% mobile responsive, CommonMark compliant (a Markdown specification), supports markdown tables, auto-created homepage/landing page. Auto syntax highlighting, auto-generated navigation, 4 built-In themes or roll your own, functional, flat design style. Shareable/linkable SEO friendly URLs, built on Bootstrap, no build step. Git/SVN friendly, supports Google Analytics and Piwik Analytics, optional code float layout and static output generation. By default, the generator will look for folders in the docs folder. Add your folders inside the docs folder. This project contains some example folders and files to get you started. You can nest folders any number of levels to get the exact structure you want. The folder structure will be converted to the nested navigation.

Scramble is OpenAPI (Swagger) documentation generator for Laravel. It generates API documentation for your project automatically without requiring you to manually write PHPDoc annotations. The documentation is generated in OpenAPI 3.1.0 format. To show the documentation in UI, Stoplight Elements is used. The main motto of the project is to generate as much API documentation automatically as possible. This allows you to focus on code and avoid annotating every possible param/field as it may result in outdated documentation. By generating docs automatically from the code your API will always have up-to-date documentation you can trust.

WackoWiki is a light and easy to install multilingual Wiki-engine. Supports WYTIWYG-editing, page rights (ACLs), design themes (skins), file upload, email notification and much more. Compatible with PHP 8.0 - 8.4 and MariaDB / MySQL.

phpMyLingvo - Web-interface for dictionaries stored in MySQL, compatible with databases for PtkDic/GtkDic and JaLingvo.

Supa aims to implement an easy way of uploading images from the local clipboard to a remote server. It's our goal to make supa very easy to adapt to other projects.

A complete documentation solution for PHP. Generates javaDoc-style API documentation and user-level manuals from your PHP code.

PHPCallGraph generates static call graphs for PHP source code using the CodeAnalyzer of the InstantSVC project and the DOT tool. The graphs can be leveraged to gain a better understanding of large software systems or even to debunk design flaws in them.

Translation team with the primary objective to translate and maintain the translations of some useful SourceForge.net Projects. GUI and CLI applications, PHP, Java and Documentation for Linux, Apple MAC & BSD and Windows. More info on our homepage.

Glossword is a system to create and publish online multilingual dictionary, glossary, or encyclopedia. Suits for creating web sites also. WAMP [Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP] package is available.

KnowledgeRoot is a knowledge base system that lets you structure your content in a tree. It integrates FCKeditor to make adding content easy.

Creates DocBlocks for includes, global variables, functions, parameters, classes, constants, properties and methods. Sets the category, the package, the author, and the license names, etc... Attempts to guess variable types. Aligns the DocBlock tags.

iDoc is a easy, web-based document manager. You can add,edit,print,delete docs and catalogs. It's multilangual and multiuser environment. You can share your docs/catalog or keep them private. Data is stored in MySQL or PostgreSQL database.

ACO project is an web-based and collaborative environment for helping and teaching teachers that aims having their own homepages for their classes activities. ACO is an intelligent and interactive system of tutorials based on adaptative technology.

While analysing an application you need a quick way to take organised notes. This project wants to provide a quick interface which allows to save everything you find out in a hierarchically structured database. That data should be useful as documentation

The BanPro DMS is a solution for any Internet or Intranet site which requires a rich-text environment for the creation and sharing of documents. Perfect for anyone who wants to run a blog, journal or other rich-text document pages on their network.

Bethelite is a content management system based on version release-1_2-branch of the PhpWiki application. Bethelite adds user management, site management, and access levels.

Tools for moving from Blog:CMS to NucleusCMS. All tools are Hacks & may require some PHP skills. Check our documentation for the best answers found todate. If you move to NucleusCMS let us know how it went - we'd love to hear some "war stories".

ATK module to create Business Process Managment documentation starting from some paper Module (list all field in a module with description and who is in charge of). Use AJAX and PROTOTYPE to create dynamic fields over the graphical image

An easy to use API for documenting PHP (>= 5.3) projects. It follows a strict structure and originally, it was only written for the Buxa Framework. The documentor mainly uses reflection and yes... of course, it supports the namespace stuff.

Comment Mentor (COMTOR) is a tool for automatically assessing the quality of source code comments.

Chipmunk Code is a simple and extendable project manager designed for the Chipnix Linux Distribution project.