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PHP Code Generator

Repository deprecated, please see: Muse

Installation via Composer

Add this dependency in your composer.json.

Or just create a project:

Getting Started

PHP Code Generator is a command line based program, we will do everything though CLI. Please type:

You will get this help message:

Generate code by Acme Template

Acme template is a default template in PHP Code Generator, generating code is very easy, please type:

Now you will see message like below:

Put your SubTemplate to Acme Template

Now you can put your code to src/AcmeTemplate/Template/mytmpl.

And using this command to generate your sub template:

Create your project template

Now everything is very easy, but how can we create our own template? We have to write some code to configure paths and variables.

Init a sample template

Using this command to init a new template.

OK, we created a sample template named flower, this template will locate at src/FlowerTemplate with an entry class FlowerTemplate, actually you can create it manually, but this will be a little complex, so we are better using the sample first.

Configure Variable and Paths

Open FlowerTemplate, you can set replaced string and copy path here:

Register replacing variables

This example means we can type -n {item} to be a variable name. And in template code, the {@item.lower@} /{@item.upper@} /{@item.cap@} will be replace to the item name.

sakura is the default value if you don't give the -n param. This is an example that if -n not found, just exit and notice user type this param:

You can add many string to $replace array, remember you will need each lower, upper and capital cases, and don't forget to return it.

Register Config & Paths

You can set some useful config in this method, the most important is path.src and path.dest. These two config tell PHP Code Generator where code from and where code copied to.

GENERATOR_PATH is root path of PHP Code Generator, and the $io->getArgument(1) means get second argument of your command(First is 0).

Task & Action

We have two default task controller, Generate and Convert.

Generate task does the code generate action, and Convert task can help us convert code back to a template. In task controller we can using doAction() to execute some different action to do something we want to do.

The Generate controller class:

The CopyAllAction class

These two class all very simple and follows single responsibility principle, we can organize our multiple actions in one controller like below:

The benefit of single action class is that we can re-use every classes in different task.

File Operation

Operator classes

We provides two operators now, copyOperator help us copy codes and replace tag to variables, convertOperator help us copy code too, but replace variable by tags.

Just new an instance and using copy method:

There will be more operator(eg: databaseOperator, gitOperator) in the future.

Filesystem

There are three filesystem classes: Path, File and Folder, which extends from Windwalker Filesystem package, please see: https://github.com/ventoviro/windwalker-filesystem

Simple usage:

So you can using Filesystem classes in Action class to help you operate files and directories.

Create a new Task

If you want a new task controller, this will need some steps to create a task. The process not very easy, we will make the process easier in the future.

(1) Create a new Command

Create a command class in src/CodeGenerator/Windwalker/Command/MyTask/MyTask.php

How to use Windwalker Console and Command? See: https://github.com/ventoviro/windwalker-console

(2) Register your command to application

Register this command in src/CodeGenerator/Windwalker/Application::registerCommands()

You will get new help like this:

(3) Create a new Task controller

Create a class in src/FlowerTemplate/Task/MyTask.php

Now you can do some actions here.

(4) Test your task

Typing this command and you can go into your task controller:

Integrate To Your Project or Framework

PHP Code Generator can integrate to any framework instead default Windwalker Console Application. Just create an IO class to help PHP Code Generator input and output some information:

Then use GeneratorController in your project entry (For example: Symfony Console):

OK it's very easy, have a good time in your code recipe.

Todo

• DatabaseOperator
• GitOperator
• FtpOperator
• UnitTest
• Completed docblock
• Easy to add task controller and command