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Admin Generator It's RAD baby! Admin Generator It's RAD baby! - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Admin Generator It's RAD baby! Admin Generator It's RAD baby! - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Admin Generator It's RAD baby! Admin Generator It's RAD baby! Rapid Application Development Who am I, and what do I do? Ian P. Christian (aka. pookey) Coding PHP for about 8 years Work for VoIP.co.uk Involved with symfony and
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Who am I, and what do I do?
Ian P. Christian (aka. pookey) Coding PHP for about 8 years Work for VoIP.co.uk Involved with symfony and Doctrine My website: http://pookey.co.uk
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About this presentation
Based on sf1.0 CRUD Admin Generator sfExtJsThemePlugin Questions and maybe some answers
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Why Bother?!
Doing it yourself is easy! The admin generator has a learning curve The admin generator is slow
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Reasons to use it
Well documented Well Tested Reduced time to market Because it's cool!
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Welcome to the Farm
We have Farms A Farm can contain many Barns We have Animals A Barn can contain Many Animals Animals can by in many Barns
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Assumptions
You have sf1.0 or sf1.1 installed You have a project configured You have a 'backend' application You have configured your database.yml You're using Propel 1.2
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CRUD: Lets make a farm!
application module model
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Show me the code!
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What about templates?
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That's useless!
But... I can change my modelz?
Sorry Spoon Cat, no! If you want that, you'll have to keep listening!
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A better CRUD
application module model
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The generated CRUD
List Edit/Create/Delete View
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The generated CRUD action
WTF? Where's the code!!
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The real code
cache/backend/prod/modules/autoFarm/actions/actions.class.php
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generator.yml
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Wow, how cool!
Lolz, that's cool!! What else can symfony do to help me work less?
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init-admin
application module model
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The generated module
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generator.yml
generator.yml is the heart of the admin
generator
Lots of options, too many to cover here
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Validation
(yes,the vim highlighting of YAML isn't perfect!)
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The error
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What does a cow look like?
Add 'picture' to the schema.yml Regenerate the model We only need to change the generator.yml
and add validation
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Updated validation
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Updated generator.yml
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What it looks like
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Improving our list
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Improving our list
apps/backend/modules/animal/config/generator.yml
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Improving our list
apps/backend/modules/animal/templates/_picture.php
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The improved list
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Relationships
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Adding a Barn
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Adding a barn
What is '1'?!
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Improved Barn
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Many-to-Many
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Many-to-many
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Improving our Animal Form
apps/backend/modules/animal/templates/_legs.php.html apps/backend/modules/animal/config/generator.yml
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Improving our Animal Form
apps/backend/modules/animal/actions/actions.class.php
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Improving our Animal Form
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Filtering
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Filtering
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Advanced Filtering
apps/backend/modules/animal/templates/_num_legs.php apps/backend/modules/animal/config/generator.yml
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Advanced Filtering
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Adding Animals to the Barn List
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Specifying a Peer Method
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What else can it do?
Integration with credentials I18N is possible Rich text editor Rich date editor
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sfExtJsThemePlugin
Contains: Generator + Theme View (js) requests data (json) at the user More interactive user interface Designed to create web-applications Capable of:
Lazy loads views (edit/list/filter-panels) Packing and minifying automatically
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The Future!
New Form API – easier to extend Propel & Doctrine support Themable I18N Better upload
http://trac.symfony-project.org/
wiki/SprintSymfony12AdminGenerator
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Questions?
Thanks to...some people....