[UPHPU] Do people use UML to model their PHP web applications?

[Alvaro Carrasco]

Jonathan Duncan wrote:
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> On 02 May 2008, at 15:02, Nathan Lane wrote:
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>> Sorry for the mass of questions and postings in the mailing list.
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> That is what the is for.  If we get annoyed, we will just yell at you 
> or ignore you.  Don't take it personally.  Bring on the questions.  =)
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>> Do people use UML to model their PHP web applications? Is there a 
>> preferred
>> method to model PHP? Do people even model PHP?
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> I do not use UML, but I am interested in it.  Have you used it for 
> other things?  Do you or anyone else have a preferred UML 
> based/compliant application?  I have been looking at OmniGraffle for 
> modeling databases on my Mac.  Although I do not know if OmniGraffle 
> is UML compliant or not.
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> Any suggestions for where to start learning UML?  Favorite book or web 
> site?  I know the UML home page is http://www.uml.org/
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I recommend Martin Fowler's "UML Distilled" (along with almost all of 
Fowler's books). If you are interested in modeling as a programming 
practice I also highly recommend Eric Evans' "Domain-Driven Design", 
you'll start *thinking* differently after reading this book.

Alvaro