Features

The main features provided by this library are:

• build UML statements of a class diagram
• draw png/svg image formats

Currently, the following language features are supported:

• Property and method visibility
• Static properties and methods
• Method return types natively and from doc comment
• Parameter types from type hinting and doc comment
• Parameter default values
• Class constants with value
• Property types from doc comment
• Property default values
• Implemented interfaces and parent classes
• Abstract classes

Install

The recommended way to install this library is through composer. If you don’t know yet what is composer, have a look on introduction.

composer require bartlett/graph-uml

Additionally, you’ll have to install GraphViz (dot executable). Users of Debian/Ubuntu-based distributions may simply invoke:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt-get install graphviz

while remaining users should install from GraphViz Download page.