Question

I know most of the java development tools for Eclipse will have a short-cut script for adding in JavaDoc blocks for needed elements (including the page-level).

Further, I know that PDT will allow you to “Generate Element Comment” for many things through the Source menu.

Is there an Eclipse plug-in out there (or perhaps it exists standard in PDT and I’ve just missed it) that will allow you to add PHPDoc Blocks for all/some of the supported elements in a given file?

Answer 1

place your text cursor right above your function, class or whatever,
type /** and press enter and you’ll have a beginning of PHPDoc written.
Eg.

/**
 * 
 * Enter description here ...
 * @param unknown_type $book
 * @param unknown_type $product
 */

You can then write @ inside the comments, and use @ followed by ctrl+space to get auto-completion hints for PHPDoc tags.