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I was bored this evening and

jeffg — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:47:44 -0700

I was bored this evening and ( with some help from Todd ) cooked up a new Komodo extension to add Cake's view helpers into *.ctp files:

http://community.activestate.com/node/2794

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JeffG
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An extension would be better...

jeffg — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:42:00 -0700

Funny, I was just thinking about this; since Komodo 4.4 and the introduction of the Zend Framework extension, it has been possible to create extensions for Komodo that modify what is available in autocomplete lists for specific types of files, eg view files. With the Zend support for example, you get autocompletion for the $this var in views as a Zend_View instance.

This should be possible to do for CakePHP as well, and I have intended to 'get around to it' for a while. The code for the Zend integration stuff is here:

http://svn.openkomodo.com/openkomodo/view/openkomodo/trunk/src/modules/z...

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JeffG
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$this-> autocomplete in views?

Adam — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:21:10 -0700

Works great but anybody have such an idea how to force autocomplete in views with
$this->
?

I found that autocomplete in views works fine with
$view->
var.

From this

jeffg — Mon, 19 May 2008 07:08:00 -0700

From this post:

http://traviscline.com/blog/2007/10/12/komodo-cakephp-view-macros/

The actual code I used was this:

<?php $ajax = new AjaxHelper(); $cache = new CacheHelper(); $form = new FormHelper(); $html = new HtmlHelper(); $javascript = new JavascriptHelper(); $number = new NumberHelper(); $session = new SessionHelper(); $text = new TextHelper(); $time = new TimeHelper(); ?>



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2. Copy the PHP code below
bugger — Sun, 18 May 2008 20:24:34 -0700
2. Copy the PHP code below into a file 'cakevars.php' and save it to somewhere on your hard drive.
What PHP code?


Views trick
jeffg — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:28:00 -0700
This trick is sort of based on Travis Cline's macro, but uses the PHP autocomplete features in a simpler way:

Ensure that the *.ctp Cake template file extension is associated with PHP

    in Preferences / File Associations.
Copy the PHP code below into a file 'cakevars.php' and save it to somewhere on your

    hard drive.
Open your CakePHP project and add the folder containing this file to

    the list at Languages / PHP. Make sure it is the *last* directory on that list.
Close, then re-open the project.

You should now get autocomplete lists including the vars defined in 'cakevars.php' in Cake view files:
cakevars
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JeffG


Re: css and images files
ToddW — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:44:38 -0700
Hi Graham,
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Are you modifying PHP code and then wanting to make a preview of the generated html?
You should be able to use the Browser Preview command (Ctrl-K, Ctrl-V) and modify the 'preview with' field to match the location on your web server, which will thus use the appropriate css and image locations...
Cheers,

Todd


Re: CakePHP setup
gmwebs — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:11:42 -0700
Hi,
Is there a way to get the css/images to appear in the HTML output? CakePHP uses relative paths to those files, so while the script works fine no images or css styles are loaded.
Regards,
Graham


Re: CakePHP setup
ToddW — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:19:00 -0800
Let me go over a simple setup of Komodo for use on any PHP framework, I'll be using CakePHP for the example, but it really does apply to most PHP frameworks you'll find out there...
Prerequisites

CakePHP relies on many applications: a web server (like Apache), a database (like MySQL) and PHP 4.3.2 or greater, so ensure you follow the necessary instructions for setting this up for your operating system, see the CakePHP installation section for details:

http://manual.cakephp.org/chapter/installing
I will not cover the setting up of a CakePHP application, but expect the user has an existing CakePHP application they want to work on using Komodo.
Configuring Komodo to work with CakePHP

PHP interpreter

Komodo needs to know where the PHP interpreter is, this is so Komodo can provide PHP specific functionality such as Syntax Checking, Debugging and Code Completion.

Go to the Komodo preferences, select the "Languages->PHP" category and check/set the PHP interpreter to point to the PHP executable you have installed.




PHP Frameworks

Komodo needs to know where your third-party PHP code is located, so that it can assist in providing adequate PHP code completions, calltips and code intelligence benefits. Generally for applications that install as part of the PHP standard library location or are added to the php interpreter's php.ini file, this is not necessary, but for frameworks that are configured through the web platform (i.e. http.conf) this step is necessary.

Go to the Komodo preferences, select the "Languages->PHP" category and in the "PHP Directories" area, select the "Add..." button to browse to where the core CakePHP libraries are installed, i.e. "/wwwroot/cake/cake" on my linux machine.
   




Setup your project

Komodo provides help for managing your application development through the use of projects. Projects let you view the application layout, edit and manage files/folders as well as providing command, macro and snippet tools.

Use the menu "File->New->Project" to start creating a new project. Save the project to the base directory where your CakePHP application resides, i.e. "/wwwroot/cake/app/App1.kpf"
   
Once saved, the project itself and the list of files/folders should appear in Komodo's project pane, where you sort, expand/collapse and click on to open for editing
As you edit your CakePHP application files, you should notice completions for CakePHP functions and classes, try this for an example:


$session = new CakeSession();

$session->
$session = new CakeSession();
$session->
You should have calltip/completions when you type the open paren "new CakeSession(", when you type "$s" and when you type the "session->".





Bake run command

Bake is a command line PHP script that will automagically generate a model, controller, and views based on the design of your database.

On your application project, right-click and select menu "Add->New Command...", call it "Bake", set the "Start in:" field to be "%p" which means the active project and then use the command text below:
For the command, use

%(php) /wwwroot/cake/cake/scripts/bake.php
, or if the script is provided as a windows batch file, you can simply just specifiy this file as 
/wwwroot/cake/cake/scripts/bake.bat
Bake runs interactively, so you can either run it through Komodo Command Output Tab (the default) or choose to run it in it's own separate console window, whichever is your preference.



Other Komodo/CakePHP resources

Komodo Macros for inserting CakePHP template hints
Advantages of using Komodo IDE

The advantages of using Komodo over Eclipse are many (just note that I am of course somewhat biased, heh).

Komodo comes already prepared with most things you need for PHP development, such as integrated source code control and code intelligence helpers, so you don't need to play around with specific plugins or download a special build to get up and running.
Komodo provides code completions and calltips easily, simply define what PHP frameworks you need and and it's done, calltips and completions appear immediately afterwards.
Komodo IDE provides debugging tools to help analyse your code and data in real time.
Komodo IDE provides additional web tools to help with client/server development, such as the HTTP Inspector and the JavaScript debugger.
Most of Komodo is open source, so you can dig into the code and contribute if you feel like it: http://www.openkomodo.com/

Hope that helps.
Cheers,

Todd


Baking with Komodo and CakePHP is easy!
jeffg — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:54:00 -0800
All you really need to do to get cake library completion in Komodo is create a new Komodo project that is stored in the top level of your project directory structure. At this point Komodo should analyze all PHP files in the project and be able to offer autocomplete for them.
If you have the main cake sources stored in some other location, you can add those in as well:
 - right-click on the project icon in the Projects tab and select properties

 - go to Languages / PHP and add the cake source directory to the 'PHP Directories' list.
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JeffG


and now, what to do with it?
christian herwig — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:42:50 -0700
dear supporters,
so you had cakephp as a test case for the autocomplete? Wonderful.

Where's the documentation or (minimum) the setup protocol to incorporate

cake into komodo (4.2)?

For a start, please give us some minimal explanations:

How can i setup komodo autocomplete to incorporate the cake libraries?

How can i use the cakephp shell to run bake (for cake1.2)?

There is a splendid cake setup tutorial here: http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/setting-up-eclipse-to-work-with-...

Unfortunately it is for eclipse and makes komodo look inferior to a zero cost IDE, only because someone wrote a good setup document.

So, What are the advantages of using komodo over eclipse with cake?
Please give a long time komodo user a reason to not switch over to eclipse by leaving just a snippet of configuration information about work you have already done with komodo/cake integration.
best regards

Christian


Warning: the Rails template
jeffg — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:37:00 -0700
Warning: the Rails template is very complicated, not from a user's perspective but from an implementation perspective. Like Rails, there is a lot of magic going on that no-one but Eric really understands well. I am quite sure a few simple Macros / Run Commands in a project template for Cake would work well enough to get people started.
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JeffG


That makes sense and puts
jwynia — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:23:07 -0700
That makes sense and puts the marketing blurb into perspective. I've been the source of more than one of those offhand statements that made its way too far into the public. You say, "the improved autocomplete makes popular tools like CakePHP easier to work with" and it turns into CakePHP being "supported".
I don't know Cake as well as I want to and am only recently using Komodo (still in the trial period trying to decide if I want to kick in for the extras in IDE vs Edit). That said, I am interested in getting to know the tools better and would be willing to take a stab at working on a Project Template for Cake.
I took a look at the FAQ for creating a Project Template* and get the basic idea. I did a basic template with the starting point for all of the files and was able to create basic projects from that template, so I can see the general approach.

*http://community.activestate.com/faq/creating-project-template
While I'm not a Rails developer, I'll take a look at that template to see the features that you guys included as a gauge of the scope required to match it. I just never like to take on a task like this only to find out someone already did it and did it better than I.
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The Glass is Too Big

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You're right
jeffg — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:39:56 -0700
Part of Komodo 4.1 was much better autcomplete / calltips support for PHP generally, and one of the test cases we used was CakePHP because it was popular, large, and PHP5 OO, so it really stressed some parts of the code completion work we did. This support benefits all sorts of PHP codebases like Cake however, so in that sense there is no real Cake-specific features currently.
What would be great for Cake developers is a Cake-specific project template similar to the one we included for Rails. Project templates are very powerful ways to add extra functionality to your projects especially in a case like Cake where you have scaffolding commands that can be run to autogenerate code, etc. We have yet to cobble something together for Cake yet though, in part because we don't use it in-house and do not have a lot of experience with it.
How well do you know Cake? Do you have any interest in working on or even testing a Project Template with us?
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JeffG


Komodo and CakePHP?
jwynia — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:16:55 -0700
I recently decided to give Komodo a shot on a project after seeing that it explicitly mentioned CakePHP alongside Ruby.
However, when I search for information on actually *using* Komodo to build CakePHP applications, nearly every search result is a quote of the ActiveState marketing blurb:
"The result is a powerful coding environment for framework stacks like Ruby on Rails and CakePHP and client libraries such as the Yahoo! UI Library and Dojo."
I find tutorials and information on the Rails stuff and can see code intelligence configuration for Yahoo and Dojo, etc, but can't seem to find anything on the hands-on use of Komodo to build CakePHP apps.
Are there project templates out there somewhere? While I could just shove forward using Komodo as a basic text editor and project file manager, I can see that there's much more power and usefulness here, and want to best apply it to CakePHP projects (and possibly other PHP frameworks in the future).
Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've been a developer for a while and have used lots of IDE's and tools, so I'm pretty self-sufficient, so I'm not looking for hand-holding, just a basic compass to point me in the right direction.