Installation
UmlWriter may be installed in several ways, choose your favorite.
Requirements
Before you install PHP UmlWriter, you will need an operating system with PHP 5.4.0 or later installed,
UmlWriter requires the spl extensions. This extension is usually compiled and enabled by default.
Composer
Put a file named composer.json at the root of your project, with the content below:
{
"require": {
"bartlett/umlwriter": "^1.2"
}
}
And ask Composer to install the dependencies:
$ php composer.phar install
Or just invoke Composer to install the latest version:
$ php composer.phar require bartlett/umlwriter
You can also use Composer to create a new project from an existing UmlWriter package. This is the equivalent of doing a git clone checkout followed by a composer install of the vendors.
$ php composer.phar create-project bartlett/umlwriter /path/to/install ^1.2
Where /path/to/install is your install directory.
PHAR
The recommended way for newbies, or just to have a look on features of this library, is to download a PHP Archive that contain all required dependencies of PHP UmlWriter bundled in a single file.
$ wget http://bartlett.laurent-laville.org/get/umlwriter-1.2.0.phar
$ chmod +x umlwriter-1.2.0.phar
$ mv umlwriter-1.2.0.phar /usr/local/bin/umlwriter
$ umlwriter
You can also immediately use the PHAR after you have downloaded it.
$ wget http://bartlett.laurent-laville.org/get/umlwriter-1.2.0.phar
$ php umlwriter-1.2.0.phar