:D As our projects are growing bigger and bigger, and we create more and more objects, it's getting harder to keep an eye on our own code, but it's a great help in it, as it generates the UML diagrams the right way (of course, maybe exceptions may occur) AFTER we finished the code.
11 years, 3 months ago Wow, that's a really useful and professional program indeed, thanks for the tip!! I just tried the UML class diagram generating with the Sparx EA's reverse engineering method from PHP source code, and it worked like a charm, I was shocked how fine this worked.
But I believe once they make it work properly it will be a great feature because as the code changes, the diagrams would be automatically updated!įor now, don't use PhpStorm for UML diagrams.ħ years, 2 months ago Related Topics uml php class-diagram Comments 13 years, 8 months ago i tried autodia but somehow i cant generate accurate class diagram (php5) 12 years, 8 months ago for some reason, doesn't like that link without a trailing slash: /package/PHP_UML 12 years, 7 months ago yeah I noticed that too! If you click the link, it gives you a 404, but if you select the address bar and press enter, it works.
The generation is not really great but you can effectively refactor stuff and again, at least preview parents, implementations, constants, attributes, methods and their visibility in a nice way. In theory you can use PhpStorm to visualise your classes using UML.
Using the "reverse engineered" data via BOUML will help in that case. If you prefer drawing the class diagram by hand (instead of using computer to do all the drawing), you can use either BOUML or ArgoUML for the drawing. I would personally interpret those words as extracting information from executable binary file or captured raw wire data.) (I'm using the phrase "reverse engineering" because it seems that UML people are using those words when they mean extracting class and method information from the source code. Goverlap=false xmi-model.dot -oxmi-model.pdfĪs an alternative you could try PHP_UML or php2xmi instead of BOUML for doing the "reverse engineering" part.
Here's an example of suitable command line for using fdp to output PDF diagram (assuming that dot file generated by argouml-graphviz XLST processing is saved as xmi-model.dot): fdp -Tpdf -Gmaxiter=1000 -Gmindist=0.5 -Gpackmode=node \
The argouml-graphviz cannot handle XMI file directly from BOUML). Export XMI from ArgoUML (I don't know which XMI version/variant the output is but it is not the same result as the output from BOUML.Use ArgoUML to import said XMI file (you can use webstart version for this step).Use BOUML to export model as XMI 1.4 file.In addition, it seems that BOUML seems to extract the model correctly (for the parts that BOUML even tries to extract). I seriously recommend BOUML for this step because it's really fast compared to many other programs I have tried. Use BOUML for "reverse engineering PHP code" to extract the class model (BOUML is available from "universe" repository of Ubuntu).
Here's how I did it (directly from code to PDF drawing without manual drawing of anything):