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My Disertation (PHP Visualisation)

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 6:32 am
by mzfp2
Hi all,

for my final year university project ive chosen to design and create a application which visualises PHP code.

I have never even contemplated creating such a program before, but i am optimistic.
However i am looking for some ideas, possible things to visualise in PHP scripts that would actually benfit the programmer or maintainer rather than just look pretty on a screen.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, i am sorry if this doesnt match with the topic of discussion on this forum, but there seems to be a great deal of experienced PHP coders here so with their help hopefully i can acheieve a decent grade for my project :)

M

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 7:27 am
by pootergeist
doesn't highlight_file() and highlight_string() already do what you want?

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 7:47 am
by mzfp2
im sure it contributes to visualisation, but my project should measure metrics of the code, this could be the number of variables in a routine, indicate the scope of the variables etc ... the number of things we could focus are on endless, but i am stuck on ideas.

The project also should visualise things that are not obvious within a program, the most obvious one being program flow.