What does the @param mean when creating a class? As far as I understand it is used to tell the script what kind of datatype the variables are and what kind of value a function returns, is that right? For example:
/**
* @param string $some
* @param array $some2
* @return void
*/
Isn´t there another way to do that, I am thinking of things like: void function() { ... }
or something like that. And for variables maybe (int)$test;
@param
doesn't have special meaning in PHP, it's typically used within a comment to write up documentation. The example you've provided shows just that.
If you use a documentation tool, it will scour the code for @param
, @summary
, and other similar values (depending on the sophistication of the tool) to automatically generate well formatted documentation for the code.