This vs code extensions provides doxygen documentation generation on the fly by starting a doxygen comment block and pressing enter. There is also support for generating output in rtf msword, postscript, hyperlinked pdf, compressed html, and unix man pages. Once this is done, just run doxygen nf, and it will create a doc directory with the html documentation. If you just want to build the doxygen pages in the doc directory make the following substitution in the doxyfile in the main mini directory. The generated documentation makes easier to navigate and understand the code as it may contain all public functions, classes, namespaces, enumerations, side notes and code examples. This is useful for generating html documentation andor an offline reference manual from a set of documented source files. Does anyone know a good alternative to doxygen for generating documentation for a php project with proper documentation annotations for classes.
I wonder how to create a chapter that would start after main documentation. Below i show how to insert images such that they appear in both html and pdfs generated by latex. It can produce beautiful documentation if the code comments are written in its custom format. Is it possible to obtain a single pdf document, organized as a book, roughly as the. All these steps will be explained in the following. See section doxygen usage for more detailed usage information the executable doxytag is only needed if you want to generate references to external documentation i. With doxygen, you can generate documentation based on the source files themselves. Lets get to 300 subs by the end of the year here is the doxygen website.
Documentation online reference pages the dot language commandline usage output formats node, edge and graph attributes node shapes arrow shapes colors schema files xsd format schema for json output users guides note. It should also mention any large subjects within doxygen, and link out to the related topics. Section documenting the code demonstrates the various ways that. This tag allows one to insert an image into the documentation. Doxygen requires different image formats for the different output types.
Getting started the executable doxygen is the main program that parses the sources and generates the documentation. Contribute to doxygendoxygen development by creating an account on github. Doxygen is a popular inline api documentation standard used in many open source software projects. It is highly recommended that you document your code. Doxygen documentation from source code php developers. Lets get to 300 subs by the end of the year here is.
Doxygen documentation for your programs installing. Doxygen is a tool to automatically generate documentation from source code comments. Jun 07, 2019 doxygen is a tool to automatically generate documentation from source code comments. Doxygen the wellautomated arduino library adafruit. The first two documents are not current with the features and details of graphviz.
This command is intended for use only when the language does not support the concept of protection level natively e. A php development platform supporting autoloading, extensive value validation, complete multilingual support, lots of supported keyvalue stores, logging to different handler using filter technology, everything is easy configurable and full customizable and more to come. Add examples to latex pdf doxygen manual doxygendoxygen. Doxygen can cross reference documentation and code, so that the reader of a document can easily refer to the actual code. Doxygen allows you to put your documentation blocks practically anywhere the exception is inside the body of a function or inside a normal c style comment block. A documentation generator is a programming tool that generates documentation intended for programmers api documentation or end users enduser guide, or both, from a set of specially commented source codes. Note that the default doxygen configuration takes hours to build. This means that main page i defined here with something like.
Provides warnings if tagged parameters do not match code, parsed parameters included in xml output and doxygenstyle tagfile d flag in 8. Doxygen documentation for vtk is published nightly as part of vtks continuous integration tests. Add the examples a shown in the html chm documentation also to the latex pdf documentation. Thankfully, even if this is not the case it can still produce documentation that can be useful for understanding a mass or mess of code. The file may contain tabs and newlines for formatting purposes. Doxygen is a tool that can generate project documentation in html, pdf or latex from code comments formatted with doxygen markup syntax. Section documenting the code demonstrates the various ways that code can be documented. A configuration file is a freeform ascii text file with a structure that is similar to that of a makefile, with the default name doxyfile. When i generate doxygen documentation in pdf format, i get plenty of different files with a single diagram in each. Two tag files are provided in the html book archive mentioned above.
Doxygen generate documentation from source code linuxlinks. The module diagram documentation is dependent on the presence of dot, this is reflected in the docblocks. Provides warnings if tagged parameters do not match code, parsed parameters included in xml output and doxygen style tagfile d flag in 8. The following documentation is regenerated nightly, and corresponds to the newest ffmpeg revision.
Section installation discusses how to download, compile and install doxygen for your platform. Note that doxygen automatically detects the protection level of members in objectoriented languages. I dont know of anything that will do it directly, but doxygen has the ability to output an xml document using the xml generator there are various projects out there that can then consume said xml data to transform it, one of the simplest ones that i am aware of is breathe which is used to convert the xml documents to something that sphinx can use to output documentation using doxygen as a. Section getting started tells you how to generate your first piece of documentation quickly. It can generate an online class browser in html andor an offline reference manual in latex from a set of documented source files. Consult your locally installed documentation for older versions. It is useful for generating html documentation andor an offline reference manual from a set of documented source files. Since the documentation for doxygen is new, you may need to create initial versions of those related topics. They are completely integrated into doxygen so doxygen will call them and create the graphs on demand. So i have this little project of mine and i made it so that some of my servers automatically generate doxygen documentation in pdf form and html. Add examples to latex pdf doxygen manual by albert. The documentation is written within code, and is thus relatively easy to keep up to date.
The executable doxygen is the main program that parses the sources and generates the documentation. This section provides an overview of what doxygen is, and why a developer might want to use it. Apr 18, 2010 once this is done, just run doxygen nf, and it will create a doc directory with the html documentation. Configuration format a configuration file is a freeform ascii text file with a structure that is similar to that of a makefile, default name doxyfile. For starting a section of private members, in a way similar to the private. Generate documentation as markdown files using doxygen. This makes your life easier not only for potential users of your. Using doxygen you may get a large documentation in no time, but to get good documentation you have to invest some time. Doxygen documentation generator visual studio marketplace. They can serve as tutorials for understanding how to use graphviz, but the most uptodate documentation is provided in the online pages listed above. How to use doxygen to generate documentation code yarns.
If you start using doxygen for an existing project thus without any documentation that doxygen is aware of, you can still get an idea of what the documented result would be. In this video i show you how to install, setup a doxygen config file and then create your html and pdf documents. If doxygen is in your path simply issue the command. See section doxygen usage for more detailed usage information optionally, the executable doxywizard can be used, which is a graphical frontend for editing the configuration file that is used by doxygen and for running doxygen in a graphical environment. You can check the documentation created for our little app or go directly to cnxapp. The price you pay for not putting the documentation block directly before or after an item is the need to put a. It can generate an online documentation browser in html andor an offline reference manual in from a set of documented source files.
Add examples to latex pdf doxygen manual by albertgithub. Each of them can be configured with its own custom text and you can decide if the addon should attempt to split the name of the method. A configuration file is a freeform ascii text file with a structure that is similar to that of a makefile, default name doxyfile. Doxygen is a useful tool to automatically generate documentation for code. Generate a pdf version of the manual you will need pdflatex, makeindex, and egrep for this. Note that the image files must be placed in a location recognized by doxygen. You have to think about documentation and doxygen while writing your functions and classes.
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