Can't get DocBlox to work with Netbeans - php

Question

I'm trying to get Netbeans for Mac to integrate with DocBlox for documentation generation. I followed the instructions on the docblox site for integrating with netbeans, but when I actually try to generate documentation I get no output, and the following appears in the output window:
DocBlox version 0.17.2
PHP Warning: mkdir(): Permission denied in /usr/local/php5-20111115-115202/lib/php/DocBlox/src/DocBlox/Task/Project/Parse.php on line 120
PHP Stack trace:
PHP 1. {main}() /usr/local/php5-20111115-115202/bin/docblox:0
PHP 2. DocBlox_Task_Project_Run->execute() /usr/local/php5-20111115-115202/bin/docblox:55
PHP 3. DocBlox_Task_Project_Parse->execute() /usr/local/php5-20111115-115202/lib/php/DocBlox/src/DocBlox/Task/Project/Run.php:141
PHP 4. DocBlox_Task_Project_Parse->getTarget() /usr/local/php5-20111115-115202/lib/php/DocBlox/src/DocBlox/Task/Project/Parse.php:270
PHP 5. mkdir() /usr/local/php5-20111115-115202/lib/php/DocBlox/src/DocBlox/Task/Project/Parse.php:120
Warning: mkdir(): Permission denied in /usr/local/php5-20111115-115202/lib/php/DocBlox/src/DocBlox/Task/Project/Parse.php on line 120
Call Stack:
0.0004 655768 1. {main}() /usr/local/php5-20111115-115202/bin/docblox:0
0.0227 3376320 2. DocBlox_Task_Project_Run->execute() /usr/local/php5-20111115-115202/bin/docblox:55
0.0246 3538264 3. DocBlox_Task_Project_Parse->execute() /usr/local/php5-20111115-115202/lib/php/DocBlox/src/DocBlox/Task/Project/Run.php:141
0.0546 3867832 4. DocBlox_Task_Project_Parse->getTarget() /usr/local/php5-20111115-115202/lib/php/DocBlox/src/DocBlox/Task/Project/Parse.php:270
0.0546 3868056 5. mkdir() /usr/local/php5-20111115-115202/lib/php/DocBlox/src/DocBlox/Task/Project/Parse.php:120
ERROR: The given location "Reefknot" is not a folder
DocBlox creates documentation from PHP source files. The simplest way to use it is:
$ docblox run -d <directory to parse> -t <output directory>
This will parse every file ending with .php, .php3 and .phtml in <directory to parse> and then
output a HTML site containing easily readable documentation in <output directory>.
DocBlox will try to look for a docblox.dist.xml or docblox.xml file in your current working directory
and use that to override the default settings if present. In the configuration file can you specify the
same settings (and more) as the command line provides.
Usage:
docblox project:run [options]
-h [--help] Show this help message
-q [--quiet] Silences the output and logging
-c [--config] [STRING] Configuration filename OR "none", when this option is omitted DocBlox tries to load the docblox.xml or docblox.dist.xml from the current working directory
-f [--filename] STRING Comma-separated list of files to parse. The wildcards ? and * are supported
-d [--directory] STRING Comma-separated list of directories to (recursively) parse.
-t [--target] [STRING] Path where to store the generated output (optional, defaults to "output")
-e [--extensions] [STRING] Optional comma-separated list of extensions to parse, defaults to php, php3 and phtml
-i [--ignore] [STRING] Comma-separated list of file(s) and directories that will be ignored. Wildcards * and ? are supported
-m [--markers] [STRING] Comma-separated list of markers/tags to filter, (optional, defaults to: "TODO,FIXME")
-v [--verbose] Provides additional information during parsing, usually only needed for debugging purposes
--title [STRING] Sets the title for this project; default is the DocBlox logo
--template [STRING] Sets the template to use when generating the output
--force Forces a full build of the documentation, does not increment existing documentation
--validate Validates every processed file using PHP Lint, costs a lot of performance
--parseprivate Whether to parse DocBlocks tagged with #internal
--visibility [STRING] Specifies the parse visibility that should be displayed in the documentation (comma seperated e.g. "public,protected")
--defaultpackagename [STRING] name to use for the default package. If not specified, uses "default"
--sourcecode Whether to include syntax highlighted source code
-p [--progressbar] Whether to show a progress bar; will automatically quiet logging to stdout
I have chmoded the target directory to 0777, but still no joy.
Has anybody got any ideas what's going wrong here? I'm running OSX Lion, Netbeans 7.1RC2 and DocBlox 0.17.2 installed via PEAR

Answer 1

Short version
it appears you need to modify the phpdoc batch file of NetBeans as described here: https://github.com/docblox/docblox/issues/195
Explanation
the problem is probably caused by Netbeans passing a title using the shortcut notation (-ti) of phpDocumentor. I am assuming your project is called Reefknot and Netbeans tries to add -ti Reefknot as last argument.
Since DocBlox is unable to handle the double character shortcut notation it will interpret -ti as being -t and as such cause Docblox to try and write to a folder 'Reefknot'.