--- exuberant-ctags-5.7/php.c	2007-06-24 21:57:09.000000000 +0200
+++ exuberant-ctags-5.7-multiline/php.c	2009-07-07 17:34:27.000000000 +0200
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 *   variables.
 *
 *   Parsing PHP defines by Pavel Hlousek <pavel.hlousek@seznam.cz>, Apr 2003.
+*   Multiline comment fixes by David Mudrak <david.mudrak@gmail.com>, Jul 2009
+*	based on a patches by Sander Marechal <s.marechal@jejik.com>, Nov 2008.
 */
 
 /*
@@ -64,14 +66,14 @@
 
 static void installPHPRegex (const langType language)
 {
-	addTagRegex(language, "(^|[ \t])class[ \t]+([" ALPHA "_][" ALNUM "_]*)",
-		"\\2", "c,class,classes", NULL);
-	addTagRegex(language, "(^|[ \t])interface[ \t]+([" ALPHA "_][" ALNUM "_]*)",
+	addTagRegex(language, "(^[ \t]*)(abstract[ \t]+)?class[ \t]+([" ALPHA "_][" ALNUM "_]*)",
+		"\\3", "c,class,classes", NULL);
+	addTagRegex(language, "(^[ \t]*)interface[ \t]+([" ALPHA "_][" ALNUM "_]*)",
 		"\\2", "i,interface,interfaces", NULL);
-	addTagRegex(language, "(^|[ \t])define[ \t]*\\([ \t]*['\"]?([" ALPHA "_][" ALNUM "_]*)",
+	addTagRegex(language, "(^[ \t]*)define[ \t]*\\([ \t]*['\"]?([" ALPHA "_][" ALNUM "_]*)",
 		"\\2", "d,define,constant definitions", NULL);
-	addTagRegex(language, "(^|[ \t])function[ \t]+&?[ \t]*([" ALPHA "_][" ALNUM "_]*)",
-		"\\2", "f,function,functions", NULL);
+	addTagRegex(language, "(^[ \t]*)(public[ \t]+|protected[ \t]+|private[ \t]+)?(static[ \t]+)?function[ \t]+&?[ \t]*([" ALPHA "_][" ALNUM "_]*)",
+		"\\4", "f,function,functions", NULL);
 	addTagRegex(language, "(^|[ \t])\\$([" ALPHA "_][" ALNUM "_]*)[ \t]*=",
 		"\\2", "v,variable,variables", NULL);
 
@@ -87,7 +89,7 @@
 /* Create parser definition structure */
 extern parserDefinition* PhpParser (void)
 {
-	static const char *const extensions [] = { "php", "php3", "phtml", NULL };
+	static const char *const extensions [] = { "php", "php3", "php4", "php5", "phtml", NULL };
 	parserDefinition* def = parserNew ("PHP");
 	def->extensions = extensions;
 	def->initialize = installPHPRegex;