UML with PHP

[ziad]

Hi All,

I am using 6.5 with PHP and finding it a very powerful way of developing PHP apps but I think I have quite a bit to learn before I can really fully utilise NB.

I've seen that NB has UML capabilities that can be used to generate source code, but it seems this only works with Java at the moment. Any news on whether this will be available for PHP development?

Thanks
Ziad

[Tomas Mysik]

Hi,

On úterý 10 března 2009 13:22:17 ziad wrote:

[András Csányi]

2009/3/10 ziad <address-removed>:

[ziad]

Thats a shame, I think that would have been cool.

How about doing something like this:

http://www.codegear.com/products/delphi/php



Anyway, thanks for a great IDE for PHP dev!

[andrewmigliore]

For PHP, these free cross platform tools work. Don't expect round trip but you can reverse or generate classes.

Bouml - a little clumsy to start with but you can generate php from your class diagrams. Probably more full featured than the next tool.

Argouml - be careful with this... no undo so save often, works fine and is simple to use.

cheers

[darkroastbeans]

If you don't mind spending money, Enterprise Architect is a sure win:

http://www.sparxsystems.com/

StarUML is also a very good free product, but I'm not sure if it will generate PHP code or not.

http://staruml.sourceforge.net/en/

[spabhat]

I have checked out StarUML, and I feel that it could be a better open source alternative for PHP code generation using UML.

It, however, by default does not support PHP 5 Code Generation and we will need to use a code generation template available here:

http://staruml.sourceforge.net/en/templates.php

What is really amazing is that we can write a custom code generation script, which mean StarUML can virtually support any programming language.

I am still looking forward to use Netbeans for everything, hope PHP Code generation would be supported in near future.

Open source really rocks. Thanks to all for the help.

Regards,
Prakash A Bhat
http://www.chandanweb.com