Re: Inverting a dependency list

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Bob McConnell<rvm@cbord.com> wrote: > I recall, years ago, having a set of utilities that would build a call > tree from application code written in C. This was useful for figuring > out dependencies in code that someone else had written. I would like to > do something similar with a large PHP application I am now maintaining, > but with a slightly different emphasis. > > This application includes several library files which contain more than > 400 function declarations. I need to determine how many of those > functions are actually used by the application and which can be culled > from the code base. Is there an easy way to determine which of them are > called somewhere and then work through the call tree to identify the > orphans? > > Bob McConnell > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > PHPUnit + Xdebug has a really nice code coverage generation. Perhaps you could use the way phpunit hooks into xdebug to figure out likes that get hit in the code base. I don't know of a simple, ready-made solution off the top of my head though. -- http://www.ericbutera.us/