Widget::getAnnotation PHP Method

    public function getAnnotation($name)
    {
        if ($this->annotations === NULL) {
            $this->annotations = array();
            $reflection = new ReflectionObject($this);
            $doc = $reflection->getDocComment();
            $matches = array();
            if (preg_match_all('/@([a-zA-Z]+)([^*]+)\\*/', $doc, $matches)) {
                for ($i = 0, $size = sizeof($matches[1]); $i < $size; $i++) {
                    $this->annotations[$matches[1][$i]] = trim($matches[2][$i]);
                }
            }
        }
        return isset($this->annotations[$name]) ? $this->annotations[$name] : NULL;
    }