Author Topic: PHP5 Code generation - buggy ? (Read 12791 times)

mikewhit · « **Reply #15 on:** November 29, 2005, 03:34:07 am »

Sorry - some people think they can (and should) pingpong between adding code and expecting the model to automatically track everything.

As sargasso (not a Sparx person) said somewhere, "EA is primarily a modelling tool [rather than] a code generator", and somewhere else, " ... [rather than] a refactoring tool" ... although some may consider these features extremely beneficial !

_{Reminds me of Star Trek's McCoy, "Jim, I'm a doctor, not a [...] !"}

That said, it has some pretty good code sync features, which can only get better as people pushing at the boundaries make useful suggestions.

maYer · « **Reply #16 on:** November 29, 2005, 03:56:29 am »

Mikewhit,

this is not a new thinking, more the normal way to go if your for example develop with Together or Eclipse UML.
U dont need to go into the model and put your details in there. You`re just free to look at the code, adding a attribut, and its AUTOMATICALLY synced in real time. And believe me, you safe a lot of time and never want to miss this functions anymore.

I know thats not possible for PHP that way, but i discribed what would be more then a great addition and is not hard to realize with the current EA.

best regards

Mayer

maYer · « **Reply #17 on:** November 30, 2005, 10:33:50 am »

I think that one is closed, isnt it ?

best regards

E.Mayer

thomaskilian · « **Reply #18 on:** November 30, 2005, 01:54:05 pm »

Closed? What?

maYer · « **Reply #19 on:** December 06, 2005, 01:36:17 am »

Closed means, the developers are not heading solve that issues.
Hopefully there will be another solution in the future.

best regards
E.Mayer

thomaskilian · « **Reply #20 on:** December 06, 2005, 01:02:17 pm »

Yes. Maybe typing in PHP6 could be a solution...

mikewhit · « **Reply #21 on:** December 07, 2005, 01:49:54 am »

We could always use UML 3.0

woutert · « **Reply #22 on:** December 19, 2005, 07:37:21 am »

Hi There,

Just to add to the discussion.

I have downloaded the trial version of EA 6.0.x.
I am using PHP 5 as code language. I tried to reverse engineer a project of mine. With some time spent i got the project nicely into the model. When i added new classes and method i saw that i lost the variable types (which i always have defined in PHPDoc). I found your discussion on one time reverse engineering and from then on only forward engineering.

As a OO purist i totally agree with the fact that you normally work forward. But working a lot with PHP programmers that don't have much experience with Modelling languages i think that it is nessecary to have the possibillity to create round-trips.

For me it is a must to be able to work with EA.
I find the tool very handy and i would really like to buy it, but if i lose all var information by reverse engineering twice, it is of no real use to me.

grtz,
Wouter

thomaskilian · « **Reply #23 on:** December 21, 2005, 03:46:55 am »

If you are honest with "only forward engineering" it WILL be of great use for you. Just the poor round-trippers will not find it useful.

maYer · « **Reply #24 on:** January 13, 2006, 01:09:56 am »

Hello,

this is exactly what i mean woutert.
There is no really diffrence between a free-cost combination like Umbrello/Eclipse comparing to the actual status of round-trip of PHP in EA.

best regards

mayer

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