That doesn't mean you shouldn't have good planning. An entity relationship diagram is still crucial for your database. But UML may be overkill, especially for a single developer. Personally, I started reading up on design patterns instead. You may actually already be using the most popular design pattern, MVC (Model, View Controller). You should be able to find a bunch of articles on the net on the MVC "technique", including a few specific to PHP.
I still tend to make it up as I go along more than I should, but my mistakes are a lot easier to fix if I design around MVC. UML is still on my list of things to learn, but it's just lower than other things.
On Jan 27, 2004, at 10:50 AM, Daniel Brown wrote:
Not sure if this is off topic or not, apologises in advance if it is.
Does anyone here use any software design languages (is that the right term?) like UML when they are designing Php driven web sites? As I am looking to start a new site/project and I want to design it properly instead of making it up as I go along like I usually do. And I was wondering if any of the software design languages like UML were any use for this?
Does anyone here use UML or something similar when they are designing their next site/php project?
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