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.

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 This allows you to focus on code and avoid annotating every possible param/field as it may result in outdated documentation.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.

ReflectionCommon is a small utility library used by phpDocumentor to provide shared constants and interfaces between different reflection components. It ensures consistency and compatibility across the ReflectionDocBlock and other related libraries, particularly for documentation parsing and annotation handling.

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.

Write gorgeous documentation with Markdown inside your Laravel apps. LaRecipe is simply a code-driven package provides an easy way to create beautiful documentation for your product or application inside your Laravel app. Configure your entire docs with simple PHP code. None of your docs configurations is stored in the database. LaRecipe provides a bunch of amazing-looking UI Vue-based components powered by TailwindCSS. LaRecipe allows you add your own custom assets though custom packages in order to match your needs. LaRecipe automatically leverages Markdown to HTML parser out of the box including typography, images, links and others. LaRecipe provides a bunch of amazing looking UI Vue based components due to the fact it compiles the markdown documentation in the back-end to HTML. If you have a very large documentation it's very handy to have search function available so that your users can find their needs quickly.

The Hassle-Free automatic API documentation generation for Laravel. Automatic rules fetching from injected Request and by regexp. Automatic routes fetching from Laravel Routes. Support for Laravel logs. Support for SQL query and query time. Support for HTTP response time and memory consumption. Support for Authorization Headers. Support for File uploads, and support for Eloquents events. Display extra documentation using markdown. Saves the history of previous requests. Added filters to sort, group, and filter routes by methods, controllers, middleware, and routes. Export Laravel API, routes, rules, and documentation to Postman and OpenAPI 3.0.0.

phpDocumentor is an open-source documentation generator for PHP projects. It automatically generates documentation from PHP source code using comments and annotations, following the PHPDoc standard. The generated output includes detailed API documentation, class diagrams, and structured reports. It is widely used for maintaining comprehensive and professional documentation for PHP applications and libraries.

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.

AJAX based wiki designed to operate like a desktop help viewer(chm)

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

It aims to use flash animations to create an interactive open source website that can be used by students to understand the finer details of data structures. Please provide your comments and help us improve our project.

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.

Patchy extends the Mantis bug tracking system to allow users to submit patches which are then autotested before being queued for approval. Please download, try the live demo (Home Page link above), join the announce mailing list for updates or help code!

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.