Re: [Dia2code-general] PHP code generation patch.

[Leandro L. <lu...@ll...>]

Richard Torkar, el viernes 18 de abril a las 14:11 me escribiste:
> On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 07:57, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> > Hi! I'm starting to use dia2code and I have to say that it's a great
> > utility! I'm starting to make some PHP classes to PEAR
> > (http://pear.php.net/) so I made a patch for generating a more "PEAR
> > compatible" (to use PEAR coding standards).
> 
> Checked into CVS.
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/dia2code/dia2code/dia2code/generate_code_php.c?rev=1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

Nice! :)

> Thanks a lot for the patch Leandro!
> I think you should definitely try to make it PHP5 compatible.
> The question is should we support "-t php4" and "-t php5"?
> 
> I don't know since I'm not exactly a PHP guru.... :)

I think yes. PHP5 has a lot of new features like attributes and methods
visibility (public, private, protected), namespaces, different
contructor (__contruct()), destructor (__destruct()), copy contructor
(__copy()), static attributes/methods and abstract classes and methods.
If you want to take advanteges of this new stuff, the resulting code
will not be php4 (or php3) compatible.

The problem is I don't know if I will finally make the php5 generator,
since I found (in this list) another similar proyect (xmi2code) that
uses Umbrello xmi diagrams to generate code. Umbrello is an UML Modeller
and is has much more improved support for UML diagrams than DIA. So, I
hope you don't be mad at me but I think that (first) I'll try to make
the PHP5 generator for xmi2code. Even so, I'll try to complete the TODO
list I've attached to my original message and here I send a new patch
that makes private and protected attributes and methods starts with an
underscore (the package_in_classname stuff is more complicated since the
constructor must be changed too).

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