Question

Do you know about a tool to easily create documentation for both JavaScript and PHP code?

Something that takes comments in code similar to the one shown below:

/**********************************************************
This function does something special...

param1: ...
param2:

RETURNED VALUES:
...
**********************************************************/
function something(...)
{
   ...

And convert these into HTML files (maybe with a frameset menu on the left).
Don’t need for the same syntax shown above, it’s only an example to explain of what I’m talking about.

Would like only one tool so once I learned the syntax to write documentation, i can use the same documentation syntax for both PHP and JavaScript.

It would be nice if the tool was a binary (.exe) or a Java code, with no need to install PERL or PYTHON.

Answer 1

Doxygen can handle PHP out-of-the-box, and helper scripts are available to enable its use with Javascript (this does require Perl, however).