PHP dynamic Page-level DocBlocks
- by Obmerk Kronen
I was wondering if there is a way to interact with the Page-level DocBlocks.
My question is more specifically about wordpress plugin development, but this question has arised also in a non-wordpress environments.
The reason is mainly the possibility to easily change VERSIONS and names throughout a large project with maybe a constant definition - but that will reflect also in the docblock..
The following example Docblock is from a wordpress plugin I write -
/*
Plugin Name: o99 Auxilary Functions v0.4.7
Plugin URI: http://www.myurl.com
Description: some simple description that nobody reads.
Version: 0.4.7
Author: my cool name
Author URI: http://www.ok-alsouri.com
*/
Is there a way to transform it into :
$ver = '0.4.7';
$uri = 'http://www.myurl.com';
$desc = 'some simple description that nobody reads.';
$mcn = 'my cool name';
etc..
etc..
/*
Plugin Name: o99 Auxilary Functions ($ver)
Plugin URI: ($uri)
Description: ($desc)
Version: ($ver)
Author: ($mcn)
Author URI: ($$uri)
*/
obviously for echo to work I would need to break the docblock itself, and I can not WRITE the docblock directly into it´s own file .
In shorts : can I "generate" a docblock with php itself somehow (I would think that the answer is - "no" for the page itself.. But maybe I am wrong and someone has some neat hack :-) )
Is that even possible ?
