There's also the PHP UML tool available from pear.
PHP_UML:
- Can generate UML/XMI files in version 1.4, or in version 2.1 (logical, component, and deployment views)
- Can generate an API documentation in HTML format
- Can generate PHP code (code skeleton) from a given XMI file
- Can convert UML/XMI content from version 1.4 to version 2.1
Install it on the command line via:
$ pear install pear/php_uml
(This used to be $ pear install pear/php_uml-alpha but the package has since gone stable.)
Generate your xmi:
$ phpuml -o project.xmi
I strongly recommend BOUML which:
- is extremely fast (fastest UML tool ever created, check out benchmarks),
- has rock solid PHP import and export support (also supports C++, Java, Python)
- is multiplatform (Linux, Windows, other OSes),
- is full featured, impressively intensively developed (look at development history, it's hard to believe that such fast progress is possible).
- supports plugins, has modular architecture (this allows user contributions, looks like BOUML community is forming up)
phUML
phUML is fully automatic UML class diagramm generator written in PHP, licensed under the BSD license. It is capable of parsing any PHP5 object oriented source code and create an appropriate image representation of the oo structure based on the UML specification.
./phuml -r /var/www/my_project -graphviz -createAssociations false -neato out.png
Step by step guide
the best (Windows) software i have found to do PHP and UML is Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect. besides a pletora of features, it supports the following for PHP:
- Reverse engineer object oriented PHP into UML class diagrams
- Generate PHP class definitions from UML class diagrams
- Synchronize changes made in a UML class into the corresponding PHP class definition
- Synchronize changes made in a PHP class definition into the corresponding UML class
- Create UML sequence diagrams to show what PHP classes use and how they are used
- Produce detailed documentation of your PHP code in standard RTF and HTML format
- Perform code engineering on models to generate base PHP pages.
not free ($199), but definitely worth the money.
Have you tried Autodia yet? Last time I tried it it wasn't perfect, but it was good enough.
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