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AutoHotkey Guide for CakePHP

By Troy (Tr0y)

Tired of typing "class YourModelsController extends AppController..." over and over? If so this, is for you.

NOTE: This guide assumes you are using PHPeclipse as your IDE of choice. If you use another IDE or notepad you will have to adjust the AutoHotkey script accordingly.

Step 1

Download and Install AutoHotkey ( it's free ) - http://www.autohotkey.com/

Step 2

Edit the default script to look like the following.

Download code




;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

;    CakePHP

;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------



;model

:c*?:]cmod::

InputBox, MyModel, Model Name Prompt, Enter model name ( e.g. MyModel ),,250,125

if ErrorLevel=0

{

    BlockInput On

    Send, class %MyModel% extends AppModel{enter}{{}{enter}var $name = '%MyModel%';{tab}// required for php4 installs{enter}var $displayField = 'id';{enter}

    BlockInput Off

}

return



;controller

:c*?:]ccon::

InputBox, MyModels, Models Controller Prompt, Enter controller name ( e.g. MyModels ),,250,125

if ErrorLevel=0

{

    BlockInput On

    Send, class %MyModels%Controller extends AppController{enter}{{}{enter}var $name = '%MyModels%';{tab}// required for php4 installs{enter}var $scaffold;{enter}

    BlockInput Off

}

return

Step 3

Fire up PHPeclipse and create a model php file.

Reload the script by right-clicking the taskbar icon and reload.

type ]cmod

It should prompt you for the model's name, so type your models name.

For controllers type ]ccon

Comments

CakePHP Team Comments Author Comments

Comment

1 textmate

if you're on a mac, just try out textmate (macromates.com) and its bundles.

there is one for cakephp to do things like this automatically.

Comment

2 SCiTE

Or for none-mac users, you can use SCiTE -- which is a VERY handy editor.

It has the same snippets functionality as Textmate and they are user-definable with an easy-to-understand syntax. Just define a set of snippets you find valuable and it's just a keyword and ctrl-b away.

If anyone is interested, I can post my snippets file (known to SCiTE users as an abbreviations file).

Comment

3 Do It

^ Yea, I'd be interested in some snippets.

:-)

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4 Vim

For Vim users you can get the snippetsEmu script to have snippets just like Textmate :-)

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1318

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5 PHPeclipse

you can define shortcuts like mentioned above in eclipse so you do not need autohotkey. just go to the templates in PHPeclipse user settings and create your own templates, e.g.




/**

 * @author ${user}

 * @since ${date}

 */

class ${primary_type_name} extends AppModel {

    var $$name = '${primary_type_name}';

    

    var $$hasMany = array();

    var $$belongsTo = array();

    var $$hasAndBelongsToMany = array();

    

    ${cursor}

}

when you create a new model just type 'model' and press ctrl + space and eclipse inserts the model code. ${primary_type_name} inserts the filename without extension so there is almost nothing to do left :-).

Comment

6 GENNIT CakePHP Generator

Have a look at http://gennit.com it does code generation for CakePHP, and creates the MySQL database as well.

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