@author

Description

The @author tag is used to document the author of any element that can be documented (global variable, include, constant, function, define, class, variable, method, page). phpDocumentor will take any text between angle brackets

(< and >)

NEW v1.2 - @author is now inherited by child classes from a parent class, see inline {@inheritdoc}.

Example

1. /**
2.  * Page-Level DocBlock example.
3.  * displays as Gregory Beaver<strong>[email protected]</strong>
4.  * , where underlined text is a "mailto:[email protected]" link
5.  * @author Gregory Beaver <[email protected]>
6.  */
7. /**
8.  * function datafunction
9.  * another contributor authored this function
10.  * @author Joe Shmoe
11.  */
12. function datafunction()
13. {
14. ...
15. }