On the CloudWays blog there's a new tutorial posted showing you how to create project documentation with Sami, a tool that takes the DocBlock information already in your code and makes it into something more human-readable.

Developers regularly create large blocks of code that form parts of API’s and other mid to large level projects. While there is a (more or less) agreed upon convention for code writing, every developer has a personal comment and documentation writing standards. Some add small cryptic notes while others attach full-length Google Docs that document the method or class in painful details. This problem becomes very severe when the number of end users increases and there is a need for proper documentation of the project.

[...] DocBlocks are important because they are used by a well known Symfony document generator package called Sami. Very popular in PHP community, Sami also provides the ability to create custom twig templates and work with versioned documentation on GitHub. In this article, I will use Sami and a GitHub project Sync Mysql data with Elasticsearch to automatically generate documentation.

The tutorial then helps you get the Sami package installed via Composer and how to execute it to ensure it's working as expected. Next it points you to a project to clone to help with the MySQL-to-Elasticsearch interface. It then helps with the creation of a configuration file, the results of a build and some additional tips for customizing the configuration for your environment.