Documenting an existing website (symfony)

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Published on 2009-12-14T13:38:57Z Indexed on 2010/03/19 10:01 UTC
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Hi,

I need to document a web application which wasn't built by me. It was built in symfony.

The documentation needed is code documentation, including list/description of classes, components etc and their interdependencies. At the moment the code isn’t commented much and the way it has been commented is inconsistent.

I was thinking of using Doxygen to generate initial documentation and then take it from there.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Mark.

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