Re: Mixing Oil and Water ?? (PHP with UML & Unit Testing)

From: Hugh Cowan (hwcowan_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/28/03 

Date: 28 Oct 2003 08:40:39 -0800

Manuel Lemos <mlemos@acm.org> wrote in message news:<bnkfek$1269ce$1@ID-138275.news.uni-berlin.de>...
>
> For instance, any database driven project could have its data model
> described with UML artifacts and you can use data object classes to
> manage the storage of your application entities that you describe in the
> model. You can do that even for sites with small number of entities in
> your data model.
>

Thanks for the info -- actually I spend almost all of my time working
with databases and manipulating data, so it's good to know. Just
about anything I add to the Intranet site deals with extracting some
data from the SQL Server and displaying it.

> Since you explicitly say that you are limited in terms of time, you may
> want to try Metastorage, which is a tool meant to let you design your
> data model in a simple XML based format, and then it generates the
> schema of the database to store your application entity data objects,
> classes to store and retrieve those objects, forms to provide the user
> interface to access those objects and even a class diagram in UML
> notation with all generated classes.

I will certainly look up Metastorage. It's not that I don't mind
spending time learning something (by hand per'se). I don't currently
need either technology to complete my work so there is not a rush to
learn or implement -- I am just looking for something new to learn and
hoping that I can apply it one way or another to the work that I do in
the hopes that it will improve something (less time, better design,
fewer bugs, etc...)

Are there any PHP specific books or sites that you would recommend
looking at, or should I just stick with Metastorage for now?

Thanks again for your reply.

Hugh

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