:bulb: Add source documentation from recent conversations.

There have been some conversations in the last weeks which explained
several parts of the code, so add it to the source code documentation.
Also some other small source code documentation improvements.

2 files changed, 106 insertions, 37 deletions

diff --git a/Zotlabs/Lib/MarkdownSoap.php b/Zotlabs/Lib/MarkdownSoap.php
index fa279b07c..a58a5753a 100644
--- a/Zotlabs/Lib/MarkdownSoap.php
+++ b/Zotlabs/Lib/MarkdownSoap.php
@@ -3,51 +3,66 @@
 namespace Zotlabs\Lib;
 
 /**
- * MarkdownSoap
+ * @brief MarkdownSoap class.
+ *
  * Purify Markdown for storage
+ * @code{.php}
  *   $x = new MarkdownSoap($string_to_be_cleansed);
  *   $text = $x->clean();
- *
+ * @endcode
  * What this does:
  * 1. extracts code blocks and privately escapes them from processing
  * 2. Run html purifier on the content
  * 3. put back the code blocks
  * 4. run htmlspecialchars on the entire content for safe storage
  *
- * At render time: 
+ * At render time:
+ * @code{.php}
  *    $markdown = \Zotlabs\Lib\MarkdownSoap::unescape($text);
  *    $html = \Michelf\MarkdownExtra::DefaultTransform($markdown);
+ * @endcode
  */
-
-
-
 class MarkdownSoap {
 
+	/**
+	 * @var string
+	 */
+	private $str;
+	/**
+	 * @var string
+	 */
 	private $token;
 
-	private $str;
 
 	function __construct($s) {
-		$this->str  = $s;
+		$this->str   = $s;
 		$this->token = random_string(20);
 	}
 
-
 	function clean() {
 
 		$x = $this->extract_code($this->str);
 
 		$x = $this->purify($x);
 
-		$x = $this->putback_code($x);		
+		$x = $this->putback_code($x);
 
 		$x = $this->escape($x);
-		
+
 		return $x;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * @brief Extracts code blocks and privately escapes them from processing.
+	 *
+	 * @see encode_code()
+	 * @see putback_code()
+	 *
+	 * @param string $s
+	 * @return string
+	 */
 	function extract_code($s) {
-			
+
 		$text = preg_replace_callback('{
 					(?:\n\n|\A\n?)
 					(	            # $1 = the code block -- one or more lines, starting with a space/tab
@@ -62,7 +77,7 @@ class MarkdownSoap {
 
 		return $text;
 	}
-	
+
 	function encode_code($matches) {
 		return $this->token . ';' . base64_encode($matches[0]) . ';' ;
 	}
@@ -71,8 +86,17 @@ class MarkdownSoap {
 		return base64_decode($matches[1]);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * @brief Put back the code blocks.
+	 *
+	 * @see extract_code()
+	 * @see decode_code()
+	 *
+	 * @param string $s
+	 * @return string
+	 */
 	function putback_code($s) {
-		$text = preg_replace_callback('{' . $this->token . '\;(.*?)\;}xm',[ $this, 'decode_code' ], $s);
+		$text = preg_replace_callback('{' . $this->token . '\;(.*?)\;}xm', [ $this, 'decode_code' ], $s);
 		return $text;
 	}
 
@@ -84,20 +108,25 @@ class MarkdownSoap {
 	}
 
 	function protect_autolinks($s) {
-		$s = preg_replace('/\<(https?\:\/\/)(.*?)\>/','[$1$2]($1$2)',$s);
+		$s = preg_replace('/\<(https?\:\/\/)(.*?)\>/', '[$1$2]($1$2)', $s);
 		return $s;
 	}
 
 	function unprotect_autolinks($s) {
 		return $s;
-
 	}
 
 	function escape($s) {
-		return htmlspecialchars($s,ENT_QUOTES,'UTF-8',false);
+		return htmlspecialchars($s, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8', false);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * @brief Converts special HTML entities back to characters.
+	 *
+	 * @param string $s
+	 * @return string
+	 */
 	static public function unescape($s) {
-		return htmlspecialchars_decode($s,ENT_QUOTES);
+		return htmlspecialchars_decode($s, ENT_QUOTES);
 	}
 }
diff --git a/Zotlabs/Lib/Permcat.php b/Zotlabs/Lib/Permcat.php
index 505ee2cfc..ca4aed9ed 100644
--- a/Zotlabs/Lib/Permcat.php
+++ b/Zotlabs/Lib/Permcat.php
@@ -2,12 +2,36 @@
 
 namespace Zotlabs\Lib;
 
-use \Zotlabs\Access as Zaccess;
-
+use Zotlabs\Access\PermissionRoles;
+use Zotlabs\Access\Permissions;
+
+/**
+ * @brief Permission Categories. Permission rules for various classes of connections.
+ *
+ * Connection permissions answer the question "Can Joe view my photos?"
+ *
+ * Some permissions may be inherited from the channel's "privacy settings"
+ * (@ref ::Zotlabs::Access::PermissionLimits "PermissionLimits") "Who can view my
+ * photos (at all)?" which have higher priority than individual connection settings.
+ * We evaluate permission limits first, and then fall through to connection
+ * permissions if the permission limits didn't already make a definitive decision.
+ *
+ * After PermissionLimits and connection permissions are evaluated, individual
+ * content ACLs are evaluated (@ref ::Zotlabs::Access::AccessList "AccessList").
+ * These answer the question "Can Joe view *this* album/photo?".
+ */
 class Permcat {
 
+	/**
+	 * @var array
+	 */
 	private $permcats = [];
 
+	/**
+	 * @brief Permcat constructor.
+	 *
+	 * @param int $channel_id
+	 */
 	public function __construct($channel_id) {
 
 		$perms = [];
@@ -16,16 +40,16 @@ class Permcat {
 
 		$role = get_pconfig($channel_id,'system','permissions_role');
 		if($role) {
-			$x = Zaccess\PermissionRoles::role_perms($role);
+			$x = PermissionRoles::role_perms($role);
 			if($x['perms_connect']) {
-				$perms = Zaccess\Permissions::FilledPerms($x['perms_connect']);
+				$perms = Permissions::FilledPerms($x['perms_connect']);
 			}
 		}
 
 		// if no role perms it may be a custom role, see if there any autoperms
 
 		if(! $perms) {
-			$perms = Zaccess\Permissions::FilledAutoPerms($channel_id);
+			$perms = Permissions::FilledAutoPerms($channel_id);
 		}
 
 		// if no autoperms it may be a custom role with manual perms
@@ -50,13 +74,13 @@ class Permcat {
 		// nothing was found - create a filled permission array where all permissions are 0
 
 		if(! $perms) {
-			$perms = Zaccess\Permissions::FilledPerms([]);
+			$perms = Permissions::FilledPerms([]);
 		}
 
 		$this->permcats[] = [
 			'name'      => 'default',
 			'localname' => t('default','permcat'),
-			'perms'     => Zaccess\Permissions::Operms($perms),
+			'perms'     => Permissions::Operms($perms),
 			'system'    => 1
 		];
 
@@ -67,26 +91,39 @@ class Permcat {
 				$this->permcats[] = [
 					'name'      => $p[$x][0],
 					'localname' => $p[$x][1],
-					'perms'     => Zaccess\Permissions::Operms(Zaccess\Permissions::FilledPerms($p[$x][2])),
+					'perms'     => Permissions::Operms(Permissions::FilledPerms($p[$x][2])),
 					'system'    => intval($p[$x][3])
 				];
 			}
 		}
 	}
 
-
+	/**
+	 * @brief Return array with permcats.
+	 *
+	 * @return array
+	 */
 	public function listing() {
 		return $this->permcats;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * @brief
+	 *
+	 * @param string $name
+	 * @return array
+	 *   * \e array with permcats
+	 *   * \e bool \b error if $name not found in permcats true
+	 */
 	public function fetch($name) {
 		if($name && $this->permcats) {
 			foreach($this->permcats as $permcat) {
-				if(strcasecmp($permcat['name'],$name) === 0) {
+				if(strcasecmp($permcat['name'], $name) === 0) {
 					return $permcat;
 				}
 			}
 		}
+
 		return ['error' => true];
 	}
 
@@ -118,29 +155,32 @@ class Permcat {
 					$permcats[] = [ $xv['k'], $xv['k'], $value, 0 ];
 				}
 			}
-		}					
+		}
 
-		call_hooks('permcats',$permcats);
+		/**
+		 * @hooks permcats
+		 *   * \e array
+		 */
+		call_hooks('permcats', $permcats);
 
 		return $permcats;
-
 	}
 
-	static public function find_permcat($arr,$name) {
+	static public function find_permcat($arr, $name) {
 		if((! $arr) || (! $name))
 			return false;
+
 		foreach($arr as $p)
 			if($p['name'] == $name)
 				return $p['value'];
 	}
 
-	static public function update($channel_id, $name,$permarr) {
-		PConfig::Set($channel_id,'permcat',$name,$permarr);
+	static public function update($channel_id, $name, $permarr) {
+		PConfig::Set($channel_id, 'permcat', $name, $permarr);
 	}
 
-	static public function delete($channel_id,$name) {
-		PConfig::Delete($channel_id,'permcat',$name);
+	static public function delete($channel_id, $name) {
+		PConfig::Delete($channel_id, 'permcat', $name);
 	}
 
-
 }
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