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Code Graph: Generate call graphs of PHP code with GraphViz

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This packages can be used to generate call graphs of PHP code with GraphViz.

There is one class that can generate diagrams in the GraphViz DOT format from a list of called or uncalled functions.

Additional functions can parse given PHP scripts to extract the list of functions in the code to generate the call tree graph.

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Sometimes it is useful to see which code is being used or not used in your applications. One way to see that information is to generate visual code call graphs.

This package implements a solution to generate call graphs from PHP code in GraphViz format. The generated GraphViz files can be viewed or rendered in many graphical formats.

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Details
Codegraph requires the Graphviz package (which does the *really* clever
stuff). Codegraph ppackages are available from various places, or you can download the source at:

http://www.graphviz.org/

This is the second release version which has a much cleaner API. 

To see what it does checkout the key.jpeg and self.jpeg files (the latter is
the result of running the code on itself). The example scripts expects a writable
directory called 'graphs' in the same dir.

The dotwriter.inc.php defines 2 classes and some supporting functions. It should
come with this readme.txt file and 3 example scripts.

* example1.php
  provides a user to upload a PHP src file
  and returns the resulting jpeg image

* example2.php
  This was front end which shiped with the first verion - and 
  allows you to try out the different options for the graph
  generator

* example3.php
  This script defines a callback handler which adds URLs to the
  nodes rendered in the image - maaking them clickable.
  It is configured to geerate links to PHPXREF documentation.

It has been written for 
Unix/Linux systems but would not require l ot of changes to support MSWindows: I believe 
the only change necessary is to specify the location of the graphViz dot interpreter. 
This is currently hard-coded as /usr/bin/dot. However the value can be overridden at
run time between instantiating the dotrunner class and generating the output file,
e.g.

    $c = new dotrunner();
    $c->graphVizBin='/windows/cygwin/usr/bin/dot.exe';
    $c->outputFileName=tempnam('graphs/','graph');
    $c->genGraph(....


To see what it does checkout the key.jpeg and self.jpeg files (the latter is
the result of running the code on itself). The script expects a writable
directory called 'graphs' in the same dir. 

Note the 'cleanUp()' method defined in the class deletes the graphViz input file but not
the output file(s). You should plan to make some provision for these in your own code.
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Accessible without login Plain text file dotwriter.inc.php Class includeable parser/generator
Accessible without login Plain text file example1.php Example Usage example
Accessible without login Plain text file example2.php Example Usage example
Accessible without login Plain text file example3.php Example Usage example
Accessible without login Plain text file parse_gen.php Example source code and front end
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