Using Phive

If phive is globally installed, you can run the following command:

$ phive install phpDocumentor

Once you run the command, phpDocumentor will be installed and it can be executed directly.

For more information about Phive have a look at the Phive website.

By downloading the PHAR

You can download the latest PHAR file from https://phpdoc.org/phpDocumentor.phar or download a specific version from https://github.com/phpDocumentor/phpDocumentor/releases.

The phar file can be used by invoking PHP directly and providing the phar file as a parameter:

$ php phpDocumentor.phar -d . -t docs/api

or, on Mac and Linux, you can mark it as executable and move it to your bin folder:

$ chmod +x phpDocumentor.phar
$ mv phpDocumentor.phar /usr/local/bin/phpDocumentor

After that you can run it globally:

$ phpDocumentor -d . -t docs/api

Using Docker

Although not an actual installation method; the easiest method to use phpDocumentor, if you have Docker installed, is to use our Docker image. The Docker image comes with all dependencies pre-installed so that you do not have to install these locally.

To run phpDocumentor using docker, the following should suffice:

$ docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/data phpdoc/phpdoc:3