PHP Conventions

Enterprise Architect supports the round trip engineering of PHP 4 and 5, where these conventions are used.

Stereotypes

Stereotype	Applies To	See also
trait	Class Corresponds To: A 'trait'.
property get	Operation Corresponds To: A 'read' property.
property set	Operation Corresponds To: A 'write' property.

Stereotype

Applies To

Tag	Applies To	See also
attribute_name	Operation with stereotype property get or property set Corresponds To: The name of the variable behind this property.
final	Operations in PHP 5 Corresponds To: The 'final' keyword.

See also

attribute_name

Operation with stereotype property get or property set

Corresponds To: The name of the variable behind this property.

final

Operations in PHP 5

Corresponds To: The 'final' keyword.

Common Conventions

An unspecified type is modeled as var
Methods returning a reference are generated by setting the Return Type to var*
Reference parameters are generated from parameters with the parameter Kind set to inout or out

PHP 5 Conventions

The final Class modifier corresponds to the Is Leaf property
The abstract Class modifier corresponds to the Abstract property
Parameter type hinting is supported by setting the Type of a parameter
The value of inout or out for the Kind property of a parameter corresponds to a reference parameter

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