
Tool for Automatically Generating UML with PHP - phUML
This article was originally published on bmf-tech.com . Overview I wanted a tool that could automatically generate UML when I needed to grasp the overview of class design. While PhpStorm apparently has a nice built-in feature to generate diagrams, I've committed to VSCode, so I had to find a suitable tool. phUML After some googling, I found various tools, but I was looking for something easy to use. github.com - MontealegreLuisphuml Documentation The original? github.com - jakobwsthoff/phuml seems to have ended maintenance, but I found a forked version like the one above. It doesn't have many stars, so it seems not many people use it... but it looked usable, so I tried it out. It supports PHP version ^7.1 . I used it in a 7.3 environment. Installation $ wget https://montealegreluis.com/phuml/phuml.phar $ wget https://montealegreluis.com/phuml/phuml.phar.pubkey $ chmod +x phuml.phar $ mv phuml.phar /usr/local/bin/phuml $ mv phuml.phar.pubkey /usr/local/bin/phuml.pubkey You can also inst
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