yii2-giiant

"Giiant is huge!"

PROJECT IS IN BETA STAGE! Note: Major changes from 0.4 to 0.5 ...

What is this?

Giiant is an extended code-generator for models and CRUDs, based upon Gii (Yii 2.0 Framework).

It creates prototypes for database models and backends including relations defined by foreign-key constrains in no-time.

To provide a highly flexible configuration system it features a callback-provider-queue to define rendering of customized inputs, columns or attribute values.

A main project goal is porting many features and learnings from gtc, giix, awecrud and other code-generators into one solution.

Resources

• Documentation
• Project Source-Code
• Packagist
• Yii Extensions

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Using a stable version

composer require schmunk42/yii2-giiant:"@stable"

Using latest master

composer require schmunk42/yii2-giiant:"@dev"

The generators are registered automatically in the application bootstrap process, if Gii module is enabled.

• Phundament core-module

Usage

To create a full-featured database backend, run the CLI batch command

./yii giiant-batch \
    --modelNamespace=app\\models \
    --crudControllerNamespace=app\\modules\\crud\\controllers \
    --crudSearchModelNamespace=app\\modules\\crud\\models\\search \
    --crudViewPath=@app/modules/crud/views \
    --tables=actor,film,film_actor,language,film_category,category,inventory,store,rental,payment,customer,staff,address,city,country

Features

Model generator

• generates separate model classes to customize and base models classes which can be regenerated on schema changes
• table prefixes can be stipped off model class names (not bound to db connection settings from Yii 2.0)

CRUD generator

• input, attribute, column and relation customization with provider queues
• callback provider to inject any kind of code for inputs, attributes and columns via dependency injection
• virtual-relation support (non-foreign key relations)
• model, view and controller locations can be customized to use subfolders
• horizontal and vertical form layout
• action button class customization (Select "App Class" option on the Action Button Class option on CRUD generator to customize)

Batch command

• creates all models and/or CRUDs for a set of tables sequentially

Extras

Special thanks to motin, thyseus, uldisn and rcoelho for their work, inspirations and feedback.

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