Does ioncube keep comments after original file has been encrypted?

Question

I would like to use the getDocComment() function of Reflection to collect the comments above functions. It works well with unencrypted php files. But in the future I would like to encrypt the php sources with Ioncube and I'm wondering whether Ioncube removes internal php comments or not.

Answer 1

It seems that ioncube leaves intact those comments by default, according to their documentation:

3.15.3 Omitting Documentation Comments [ --no-doc-comments ] Documentation comments are comments with the following syntax: /** My code comment */ These comments are exposed by the PHP 5 reflection API, and are preserved by the PHP 5 Encoder by default. In order to omit these documentation comments from encoded files specify the --no-doc-comments option.