phpDocumentor Tags
The phpDocumentor Tags are the tags that originate with phpDocumentor itself — the documentation generator that defined the original PHPDoc convention long before the current generation of static analyzers existed. Where the Standard and Advanced groups collect tags about types, this group collects tags about documentation: authorship, licensing, packaging, cross-references, and the prose that ends up in a generated API manual.
Many of these predate modern type analysis and carry no type information at all — they annotate the human-facing documentation rather than constrain the code. They are grouped here by provenance, and a fair number are legacy entries from phpDocumentor 1.x kept for compatibility with older docblocks.
What Belongs Here
Authorship and legal — @author, @copyright, @license.
Packaging and structure — @package, @subpackage, @category, @name, @global, @staticvar, and the plain @static.
Versioning and lifecycle — @version records an element's own version, @since the version it first appeared in, and @todo notes work still to be done.
Documentation control — @inheritdoc pulls documentation down from a parent, @ignore hides an element from the generated output, and @access is the legacy way of recording visibility.
Examples and sources — @example, @source, and @filesource embed or point to code in the rendered documentation.
The implemented tags in this group each parse into a dedicated object; a few entries (such as @id, @toc, and @tutorial) are still marked work-in-progress. Open any entry in the sidebar for its exact grammar and behavior.