The Dev Toolbox 5.1.0

Note: It has been brought to my attention that people are using this on IPS community in the cloud and on their live sites causing issues for IPS Support. These tools are designed and intended  to be used in a localhost and/or absolute development environments. these tools have zero value outside of development, please use wisely. if you are not a developer or do not intend to use them in a developer environment, these tools are unlikely meant for you.

Note: It is probably best to keep up to date with the repo as i don't often update the app with new versions. I typically update it every 3 or 4 months here. so it is best to pull and update from the repo (mostly the dev branch, check the commit messages, as i usually will leave one if something is broken or its not a good idea to use. typically dev is relatively safe to update from, as it usually contains only bug fixes, it is xp that will have new features or add in breakage.)

The Dev Toolbox is  a applications, designed with making working with IPS easier, and to reduce overall production time. 

This applications is being provided free of charge to the IPS developer community, but I ask if you find them useful or lifesaving, consider making a donation of any amount, to help ensure the future development of these fantastic tools.

https://paypal.me/codingjungle

if you would like to access the git repo:

https://github.com/codingjungle/toolbox

there are 3 branches, master, dev and xp. master will be what is found here in the download, dev will be any bug fixes, and xp will have new features, etc, that are in the works, so it might not be ready for general use. 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a list of the the features and how they benefit you. (note: these descriptions are for the individual apps, but the combined app contains all these features and more now):

DT Proxy:

This application will be most useful for those who use IDE's, especially if you use PHPStorm with the PHP-Toolbox plugin. Once you run it, it will create proxy class for IPS classes (most IDE's are unable to correlate an IPS class, to a class used in the code, due to the use of the _ in the class name). it will also attempt to create property tags for Database columns and the setters and getters found in your code. This is useful for autocomplete and code inspection in your IDE (will make it possible for the IDE to map the class's and their method usage).

Php-Toolbox Improvements:

PHP-Toolbox is a plugin for phpstorm, that makes it possible to add autocompletes for methods, and alter the return type as well.

• Template Return Type: on Theme::getTemplate($group), this will trigger a return type that matches the $group param of the method. this will then provide possible templates that the group can provide. this is limited due to only $group being required, so it might not return the "right" template (as groups and template names aren't regulated like class names are). In my testing and use, this feature is about 95% accurate most of the time. It drastically goes up, the more unique the template name is compared to others. say you have a group called "forms" with a template in it called 'text.phtml', since IPS also has this, it could potentially return the wrong one (depends really on which order the template was processed in).
• Application Hinting: there are several methods in IPS that require an "app" name in their parameter, this builds a list of app names from the apps installed to "show up" when those methods are called.
• Table name Hinting: this is for any method that calls a Database table name, dt proxy will generate a list of table names based on the tables present at execution time.
• Language String Hinting: will provide a list of available language strings that can be used.
• Template Group Hinting: provides a list of available template groups to most methods that use them as a param.
• ModPermission Hinting: provides a list of available modpermissions to the methods that use them as a param.
• Url Hinting: provides a list of available Query Strings that can be used.
• Furl Hinting: provides a list of available FURL definitions.
• PHP Core Hinting: adds in additional hinting's and return types for PHP methods.

DT Proxy Extension:

The dtproxy extension, you can add property types for Request and Data\Store. It already includes some of the most common property's found in both, but you can add to this with the extension in your applications.

DT Dev Center Plus:

This application extends the features of the developer center for applications in IPS. this will add 3 new tabs to the dev center, along with other improvments.

Tabs:

• Sources: this allows you to create "sources" classes for your application. there are several predefined class types you can choose from. There are also options to handle some of the "mundane" things that are involved in creating several classes. most notably are the AR\Node\Items\Comments\Review classes. with each you have the option of creating the databases at creation with a basic layout (mainly the ID column) and with the prefix used if defined (for nodes/items/comments/review, this will also add too the class and to the table it creates, any required/optional fields for IPS traits or interfaces used).  For nodes and items, it will also create the corresponding module and controller. (this feature can be turned off by turning of "create scaffolding").
• Dev Folder: this tab allows you to create "Dev Folder" components, such as Templates and the JS skeletons. it is not as complex as Sources, but it saves time from hunting down and cloning an existing JS/template and removing the bits you don't need.
• Languages: This tab shows you all the defined language strings for your app, in both jslang and lang.php.  this allows you to add/remove/alter while on the tab.

Features:

• Extension Generator: instead of just generating a blank skeleton for extensions, this feature aims to provide a working out of the box extensions. this feature atm only supports FileStorage, ContentRouter and CreateMenu.
• Adding/Removing Column in Versioning: this feature will allow to easily add in a query to add/remove columns for versions.

Extension:

Dev Center Plus has an extension called "Headerdoc". it is a bit misleading name, but it gives you the ability to do several useful things when building an app.

Enabled() (bool) : if this is set to true, it will add the classes "doc block" to the file if it doesn't already exist, and if it does, it will only alter it for the files include in the tar (so the file wont be marked as changed by your repo software if you use it).

IndexEnabled() (bool): if this is set to true, it will add a blank index.html to all the folders and subfolders in your application. to prevent viewing of the directory contents on servers that do not have the directory listing turned off.

fileSkip() (array): allows you to add a list of files to skip during the build process of the tar. there is also a "global" skip list in the settings of DT Base for this.

dirSkip(array): allow you to skip entire folds during the build process of the tar. there is also a "global" dir skip list in the settings of DT Base.

exclude() (array) : allows you add a file or folder here to skip having a "header doc" added to it. useful if you use third party libraries.  will automatically exclude the following directories and files: 'hooks', 'dev', 'data', '3rdparty', '3rd_party', 'vendor', '.git' and '.idea'.

DT Dev Folder:

ever misplaced thos pesky dev folders for your app or don't feel like alter table entries to rebuild your "plugin" dev folder manually, or simply doing work for a client and having a conflict with another app/plugin but can't debug it in in_dev due to missing dev folders, well look no further Dev Folder is the app for you. this will generate dev folders for both apps and plugins (will also allow you to install plugins while in_dev is enabled). if you have the app installed and enabled, it will automagically add the dev folders if they don't already exists .

DT Code:

I'm not sure where i will be going with this application exactly, right now it will search thru your code looking for lang keys and settings, it will check and verify they are both in use and defined. it can return false positives as these might not always be "defined" in a way it can read it, but can give you the ability to see which language strings are in use and get rid of the "dead" ones and same with settings. if you have any suggestions for things you would want to check in your code, let me know and i will see about implementing this feature.

DT Content:

Creates "dummy" content for testing purposes.

Generators:

• members - generates random members. can select to add members randomly to a random group.
• forums - generates forums.
• topics - generates topics. will create between 1 to 30 replies per topic created.
• posts - randomly adds replies to topic.
• clubs - creates clubs with random owners and various "types"

*note: unlike the "storm" version, when forums are generated they will not create topics (there was a bit of problems with this in storm, so you should create forums first, then create the topics).

DT Profiler:

Replaces the IPS "query log" with a more compreshensive "profiler'. to enable you must have the define('QUERY_LOG', true) in your constants.php (if you want the cache log as well, you will need to have define('CACHING_LOG', true); as well).

Tabs:

• Execution: will display the total time a page took to process from start to finish (this isn't the load time, so don't confuse the two :)).  if you click on this tab, it will display how long the framework took and the profiler to execute, so you can rule out the profiler for slowdowns).
• memory used: The memory used by the page when it was being executed. This feature can be expanded upon by using the Memory class in Profiler.
• Included Files: shows how many files are included on the page, and if you click on it will show the a list of these files.*
• Query Log: displays the queries being executed for the page, along with their execution time and memory load.
• Caching Log: displayes the stores and caches being set or got during execution.
• Templates: a list of all the templates in use. *
• CSS: a list of all the CSS files loaded.*
• JS: a list of all the JS files loaded.*
• JSVars: a list of the JS Vars defined for use.
• Logs: shows the most recent logs that were generated (the amount it shows can be changed in the DT Base settings).
• Debug: if you use the Debug class, you can add debug statements inside your app's methods. this feature uses a long polling script to query the DB for new log entries and adds them here if they are found (useful for debuging Ajax request). if you use DT Dev Center Plus, you can add a permanent Profiler/Debug class to your app, this way you can add the \IPS\myapp\Profiler\Debug::add('key', 'message') to your methods and leave them there safely for future use (as the Profiler\Debug added by Dev Center Plus will create a class that uses __callStatic and checks to see if the parent class exists, other wise it will just be ignored)
• InfoBar: Gives basic information about the environment, IPS version, PHP version, and Contoller being executed, along with the Method and line number that method begins on.*

*: if you have define('DEV_WHOOPS_EDITOR', 'phpstorm'); (or a supported editors) in your constants.php, it will generate a link that will open the file in editor if you have the phpstorm/supported editor protocol configured ( how to's for phpstorm (how to do this in windows) (how to in linux) (how to on mac not sure how well it works as i don't have a mac ?  ) );

DT Base:

This app doesn't do much on its own. it mainly exist as a "core" app, to share useful features and code among the rest of Dev Toolbox (so we aren't spending a great deal of time reinventing the wheel for common features). It also contains the Settings and DevBar menu. This app is REQUIRED to run any of the other apps, as they heavily depend on its libraries to function correctly.

There are a ton of features and abilities i'm probably forgetting to mention here, so why don't you try it yourself, it is free after all. Hope everyone enjoys this! send me any bugs or feedback to my PM's. i wont be supporting this application in my app topic. thanks to everyone who has made this app possible!

License Note: The Dev Toolbox, where applicable, is released under the 2-Clause BSD License