Phalcon Developer Tools on Linux

Reference: https://docs.phalconphp.com/en/latest/reference/linuxtools.html

Developer Tools
These tools are a collection of useful scripts to generate skeleton code. Core components of your application can be generated with a simple command, allowing you to easily develop applications using Phalcon.
Make sure the phalcon module already installed.

Installation of Phalcon Developer Tools for Linux:

  1. Clone the tools
  2. Go into the directory then execute ”. ./phalcon.sh”, (don’t forget the dot at beginning of the command):

    At the end I got an error “ERROR: Phalcon extension isn’t installed…”. This is may be because my php cli version (php version 7) is different with my default php (php version 5.6). From the previous article, I only install phalcon for php 5.6. So change the php version for cli (read again http://myprojects.advchaweb.com/index.php/2016/09/16/update-ppa-for-php/) like this:

    When I did the last error command, it’s working now

     
  3. Create a symbolink link to the phalcon.php script:

    I think ‘phalcon’ can be used from everywhere now. even I don’t need to execute this command anymore

    Here is the ‘phalcon’ command running at home directory:

     

Use Phalcon Developer Tools for Projects (ref: https://docs.phalconphp.com/en/latest/reference/tools.html):

  1. Create a project
    Note: To enable the web tools (for web GUI) , add the ‘–enable-webtools’ after the project name

    SO it just not ‘phalcon create-project store’
  2. Open it on your browser (http://localhost/works/phalcon/store/). But I got this error:

    From this forum: https://forum.phalconphp.com/discussion/15389/volt-directory-cant-be-written, I tried to modify the files permission to ‘664’

    Then refresh, got another error:

    Now try to modify to ‘777’.

    Then refresh again AND IT’S WORKING NOW (http://localhost/works/phalcon/store/)

    The web tools (make sure you create your project with the webtools enabled)
    Open it on your browser http://localhost/works/phalcon/store/public/webtools.php. If you get the display like thisIt means the css and js file can’t be loaded properly. From this link: https://forum.phalconphp.com/discussion/15111/webtools-can-not-load-css-if-using-different-baseuri, I need to modify /app/config/config.php and add ‘staticUri’ like this:

    Then refresh again your browser (http://localhost/works/phalcon/store/public/webtools.php), Here is the displayNOTE: I FOUND ONLY ‘controller’ COMMAND IS WORKING, BUT ‘model’ and ‘scaffold’ COMMANDS IS NOT WORKING! I ALSO TRIED THE COMMAND LIKE ‘phalcon model products’ AND IT DON’T WORK. I THINK THE PROBLEM IN THE DEV TOOLS! I put this issue in phalcon github (https://github.com/phalcon/phalcon-devtools/issues/976): Cannot create model via devtools but can create controller
    “I can create controller via the devtools (and webtools) but I can’t create model. Here is the command:

    $ phalcon model products

    The result:

    Phalcon DevTools (3.0.4)
    Error: Table “products” does not exist.

    I also can’t do it via webtools. I fill the form like the table name and click ‘Generate’. The weird thing happened. it said ‘Models were created successfully’ but I see nothing.

    I also found the url for the webtools is a bit weird (it’s working though). when I opened it the first time, the url is like this: http://localhost/works/phalcon/store/public/webtools.php
    but after i clicked the others links (do some stuff on controllers, models, system info, etc), the ‘/webtools.php/’ keep added and make the url longer, so it’d be like this: http://localhost/works/phalcon/store/public/webtools.php/webtools.php/webtools.php/webtools.php/webtools.php?_url=/controllers/list.

    Info:
    Phalcon DevTools Version: 3.0.4
    Phalcon Version: 3.0.3
    AdminLTE Version: 2.3.6
    OS: Linux teddy-K43SJ 4.4.0-62-generic #83 14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 18 18:10:30 UTC 2017 x86_64
    PHP Version: 5.6.30-1+deb.sury.org~trusty+1
    PHP SAPI: apache2handler”
    I’M WAITING THE ANSWER!!!

    Test Phalcon (https://docs.phalconphp.com/en/latest/reference/tools.html)
    Generating Controllers
    The command “create-controller” generates controller skeleton structures. It’s important to invoke this command inside a directory that already has a Phalcon project.

    This is the content of /store/app/controllers/TestController.php

    Modify the above controller like this:

    Then open it on your browser: http://localhost/works/phalcon/store/test
    Result of the test controller:
    Create a new database ‘phalcon_store’ (via phpmyadmin)
    Preparing Database Settings
    When a project is generated using developer tools. A configuration file can be found in app/config/config.php (NOT config.ini file).

    To generate models or scaffold, you will need to change the settings used to connect to your database. I CAN’T USE DEVTOOL FOR CREATING MODEL LIKE I SAID ABOVE, SO I’LL DO IT MANUALLY! SO create a new file ‘Products.php’ in /app/models/ directory. I also added setter/getter methods

    SCAFFOLD ALSO SEEMS DONT WORK VIA DEVTOOLS!

    SO FOR SAVING TIME, I DOWNLOAD THE WORKING CODE FROM https://github.com/gsokolowski/ph-store. –> THE LOOKS STILL SAME WITH MINE. NO DIFFERENT. ONLY SHOW ‘Congratulation.
    HERE IS LOCAL PHALCON PROJECT WORKING: http://localhost/works/phalcon/invo. –>LEARN THIS!

    NOTES:
    I found when the first time the page is loaded (index.php in /public/ dir), it’d be referred to /app/views/index.volt. then content “{{ content }}” would be picked up from /app/views/index/index.volt. We can modify this file to change the frontend content

    Here is the looks (http://localhost/works/phalcon/store/)

     

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