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Sounds like a plan!

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I know a bit about https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser that is being used here and I get the idea that a reflection classes will be instantiated during PHP code parsing. But I have no clue how to give in a filename and get parsed reflections back from it.

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Technically speaking it is simple, you can instantiate a FileReflector object with the filename of the file that you want to process and it created an AST for you that you can consume

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I am using this lib in the API generator for the Yii Framework 2.0. You may check out the implementation here: https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2-apidoc/blob/master/models/Context.php#L57

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Thanks. Besides for my needs I'm using Sami (https://github.com/fabpot/Sami) right now.

What I plan to use this library for is https://github.com/php-annotations/php-annotations

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For version 2.0 (currently on the develop branch) there is a basic usage guide. I intend to add more documentation in the future but this solves the current issue

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