Visualise OO PHP code

Question

Hello, Does something exist that I can point to my PHP project and it can look at all the files (or just the ones that I specify) and generate a diagram based on the objects and function calls? It would be a good way to verify that my design is actually being implimented :)

Background: I'm trying to build a PHP website using OO principles and while, so far, it is working I still have a ways to go and already the complexity is getting out of control. I mean, I understand basically what's going on but (and I don't think I'm alone here) it's really helpful to me if I can visualise the system at once and see the flow so I can optimise, remove unnecessary things and of course, build on the foundations. I could sit down with a pen&paper and draw it (and I have done that for parts) but if there was some program that would generate an image, it would be much simplier. Plus I could do it more often.

Thanks :)

Answer 1

This answer is I think still valid for PHP, but I am not sure if it is totally what you want. I know some of the tools (e.g. Doxygen) work with PHP

Answer 2

PHPDoc will create a class tree from your source code, but just in text (well, HTML). Not a pretty graph.

Answer 3

If you use profiling with xdebug you can get cachegrind files to open up with WinCacheGrind or similar. More info here.

Answer 4

You should check out nWire. The first nWire for PHP beta was just released. It is an interactive tool which lets you visualize practically every possible association in your code.