PHP docs custom tags

Is there a way to get the documentor to pick up a custom tag. One I’ve started using is @implements - which notes what interface implementation requirement is fulfilled by the function. Example of what I’m babbling about…


/**
 * A function that is implementing a method for an interface in a concrete class
 *
 * @param string
 * @implements SomeInterface
 *
 * @return string
 * @throws FatalException
 */

I saw such a thing at a presentation once, PHPLondon 2006 I think, could have been someone from IBM talking about SOA IIRC. Marcus might remember better than I.

The presenter seemed to get a lot of questions about scalability and the likely time this kind of operation would take, as I recall.

I believe you are meant to use @package packagename to group the concrete class and its interface and phpdocs will automatically work out the inheritance.


/**
 * @package Example
 */
interface A {
    public function foobar() {}

}


/**
 * @package Example
 */
class B implements A {
    public function foobar() { return 0; }
} 

(going on memory, I hope it actually does work or I’ll look stupid :P)