Laminas Tools

Tools to facilitate rapid app development using Laminas MVC.

Installation

To get the latest version add the --dev flag.

composer require --dev phpcl/laminas-tools

Otherwise, specify your preferred version in the composer.json file:

{
    "require" : {
        "phpcl/laminas-tools" : "^1.0"
        ... other config not specified
    }
    ... other config not specified
}

and then run composer install.

Followup

Have a look at the vendor/bin folder:

ls -l /path/to/project/vendor/bin

If you notice there are no links for phpcl-laminas-tools, run the following command:

cd /path/to/project
php vendor/phpcl/laminas-tools/utils/create_links.php

Usage

From a command prompt or terminal window, change to the project root directory of your ZF 3 or Laminas MVC project.

Linux

vendor/bin/phpcl-laminas-tools WHAT PATH NAME

Windows

vendor/bin/phpcl-laminas-tools WHAT PATH NAME

Params

Param	Example	Description
WHAT	module : controller : factory : controller-plugin : view-helper	Describes what component you want to build
PATH	"/path/to/project"	Full path to your project root directory
NAME	"Test"	Name of the module you want to create, or
	"Test\Controller\ListController"	Name of the controller you want to create, or
	"Test\Factory\ListServiceFactory"	Name of the factory you want to create
	"Test\Controller\Plugin\NameOfPlugin"	Name of the controller plugin you want to create ("nameOf" becomes the alias)
	"Test\View\Helper\NameOfHelper"	Name of the view helper you want to create ("nameOf" becomes the alias)

Examples

These examples assume you are running from a command prompt / terminal window, and have changed to the root directory of your project.

Creating a Module

As an example, to create a module "Test" on a Linux server:

vendor/bin/phpcl-laminas-tools module `pwd` Test

Here is what the tool does:

• Creates the module directory structure
• Creates a file module/Test/src/Module.php
• Create a controller module/Test/src/Controller/IndexController.php
• Creates a view template /module/Test/view/test/index/index.phtml
• Creates a config file module/Test/config/module.config.php
  • Adds a route /test[/:action] (where action is the name of any additional xxxAction() methods created in the controller)
  • Registers the controller with the framework

Creating a Controller

As an example, to create a controller "Test\Controller\ListController" on a Windows server:

vendor/bin/phpcl-laminas-tools controller "C:\path\to\project" "Test\\Controller\\ListController"

Here is what the tool does:

• Creates a file C:\path\to\project\module\Test\src\Controller\ListController.php
• Creates a view template C:\path\to\project\module\Test\view\test\list\index.phtml
• Creates a config file C:\path\to\project\module\Test\config\module.config.php
  • Adds a route /test-list[/:action] (where action is the name of any additional xxxAction() methods created in the new controller)
  • Registers the new controller with the framework

Creating a Factory

As an example, to create a factory "Test\Factory\ListServiceFactory" on Linux:

vendor/bin/phpcl-laminas-tools factory `pwd` "Test\\Factory\\ListServiceFactory"

The tool will then directly output the code for a generic factory named ListServiceFactory. If you wish to pipe the output into a file, do this:

mkdir module/Test/src/Factory
vendor/bin/phpcl-laminas-tools.sh factory `pwd` "Test\\Factory\\ListServiceFactory" >module/Test/src/Factory/ListServiceFactory.php

Creating a Controller Plugin

As an example, to create a controller plugin "Test\Controller\Plugin\ReallyCoolPlugin" on Linux:

vendor/bin/phpcl-laminas-tools controller-plugin `pwd` "Test\\Controller\\Plugin\\ReallyCoolPlugin"

Here is what the tool does:

• Creates a file path\to\project\module\Test\src\Controller\Plugin\ReallyCoolPlugin.php
• Adds to the module config file \path\to\project\module\Test\config\module.config.php
  • Registers the new controller plugin with the framework under the controller_plugins => factories key
  • Adds an alias reallyCool under the controller_plugins => aliases key

Creating a View Helper

As an example, to create a view helper "Test\View\Helper\ReallyCoolHelper" on Linux:

vendor/bin/phpcl-laminas-tools view-helper `pwd` "Test\\View\\Helper\\ReallyCoolHelper"

Here is what the tool does:

• Creates a file path\to\project\module\Test\src\View\Helper\ReallyCoolHelper.php
• Adds to the module config file \path\to\project\module\Test\config\module.config.php
  • Registers the new view helper with the framework under the view_helpers => factories key
  • Adds an alias reallyCool under the view_helpers => aliases key

Routes

When you create a new module:

• This route is defined for you: /module where module is the lower case name of the new module.
  • Example: you add a new module Test. The new route will be /test.
• Any action methods added to the default controller MODULE\Controller\IndexController can be referenced using the name of the action method minus the suffix Action, all lowercase.
  • Example: you add a method public function demoAction() {} to IndexController in the Test module. The new route will be: /test/demo. When you create a new controller:
• This route is defined for you: /MODULE-CTRL_SHORT where MODULE is the lower case name of the new module and CTRL_SHORT is the "short" name of the controller (class name minus the suffix Controller, all lower case)
  • Example: you add a new controller DemoController to the Test module. The new route will be: /test-demo.
• Any action methods added to the new controller can be referenced using the name of the action method minus the suffix Action, all lowercase.
  • Example: you add a method public function whateverAction() {} to DemoController. The new route will be: /test-demo/whatever.

IMPORTANT

• If you wish to generate a factory for a specific class, use the already-existing Laminas CLI tool vendor/bin/generate-factory-for-class instead.
• The PHP-CL Laminas Tools can be used to create a factory if the generate-factory-for-class command fails, or if the factory class you wish to create does not have resolvable type-hints.
• If you prefer, you can also simply download the file laminas-tools.phar
  • Usage is the same: follow the examples above, but substitute php laminas-tools.phar in place of vendor/bin/phpcl-laminas-tools