Thanks Lee. Yes, I guess a UML tool could be usable although I don't know how well that they're suited for databases.
I wish to get to work on my project already and that's why I'm asking here what Symfony+Doctrine developers actually use. There's such an abundance of tools for everything nowadays and it's quite time- consuming to look at all of them. It's quite frustrating to spend a few hours learning some new tool and then realizing it's missing something very basic that you needed or that it crashes too frequently. On Jan 29, 11:49 am, "Lee Bolding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I expect you could probably get MagicUML to do what you want... it's pretty > flexible and extendable. > > Maybe even Visio would do it :) > > I expect there must even be an Eclipse plugin out there too. > > Isn't the point of an ORM framework - and Doctrine - that you model your > objects (and their relationships), and generate a database schema from > those? So, you don't want a database modelling tool, you want a UML tool > that will export to a Doctrine compatible format, correct? > > There's probably a bunch of tools in Java-land that could be adapted - > anything that works with Hibernate, AndroMDA etc > > There's a list of UML tools here > :http://galaxy.andromda.org/docs/case-tools.html > > Happy hunting - but remember, if you don't find what you want - necessity is > the mother of invention :) > > Lee Bolding > > w:http://www.leesbian.net > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of awe > Sent: 29 January 2008 04:31 > To: symfony users > Subject: [symfony-users] Re: Visual modeling tools for Doctrine? > > Thank you for your answer. > > If you're referring to this Dia:http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/ > than it's seemingly a drawing tool and not a visual database modeling > tool. > > A visual modeling tool should (basically) support defining the > entities, their contents, their relationships, their constraints and > so on in an easy to view and maintain way. PowerDesigner is a nice > tool for that although probably too bloated and too pricey (~7,000$ > per seat!) for my relatively basic data design needs. I've been > checking some open source tools such as Azzurri Clay, DBDesigner4, > MySQL Workbench & Power*Architect but haven't found one that is more > useful than a burden for my desired Symfony+Doctrine configuration. > > On Jan 29, 5:17 am, "Jonathan Wage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been poking around in this area lately, although I was looking for > > something a little bit different. > > I want to generate a UML diagram for a set of models as a simple image so > > you can easily inspect the full view of all your models. > > > What you are wanting would be very easy to accomplish with Dia. I know > that > > you can write things for Dia to generate the diagram information in any > > format that you specify, xml, yml, etc. > > > I don't know of anything prepackaged that already exists, but it > > is definitely possible with the technology out there. > > > - Jon > > > On Jan 28, 2008 8:32 PM, awe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Which (if any) visual database modeling tools do you use? Do they > > > allow you to create a Doctrine schema directly? > > > > This is a re-post of: > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/doctrine-user/browse_thread/thread/143... > > > due to lack of answers. > > > > Thanks > > > -- > > Jonathan Wagehttp://www.jwage.comhttp://www.centresource.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
