CLI

[Eighke]

Hi Nic,

I tried to use the CLI, I have some questions / problems.

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It is impossible to generate a Model. It always return Could not connect to MySQL.. I tracked the problem and it come from this line https://github.com/akeeba/fof/blob/development/fof/Model/DataModel.php#L712

The database was init with default value (root user, no password, no database, etc).

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I feel confused. fof init allow us to create almost a full component tree, which is great. But when we are using the fof generate is generate the files directly inside Joomla. Well it is possible to manage that using symlink, but it is a bit confusing at start.

Couldn't we generate the MVC directly inside the component tree instead ? Or give a new command to do it --inside-joomla something like that? It should be easy changing the backEndPath and frondEndPath.

[Eighke]

For the second point, I tried something

https://github.com/Eighke/fof/commit/6404e62f1c06c6a1a20ba2001e45ef2308913bea

• Added --both : allow to generate both front and backend in the same time
• Added --in-joomla : allow to generate the file in the Joomla Website (the default is now to generate the file inside the component tree)

What do you think?

For the database I checked a bit more but I have no idea why. :(

[nikosdion]

The problem is that if you want to create MVC classes you need to talk to the database. This means that you'd either need to store this information in your repository or you'd have to run the CLI tool from inside Joomla!. We chose the latter.

I made some changes a couple of weeks ago which allow you to run the FOF CLI tool either from the root of the site (if the PHAR file is in your path) or from a PHAR file placed inside the CLI directory.

As always, you only need to symlink your component into the Joomla! site before using the CLI tool.

[Eighke]

I'm already using the PHAR from the CLI path: I have no access to the database. The CLI is just not working at all for model and layouts because it fails to connect to the database.

It is a fresh J! 3.5 website with nothing install on it except FOF3.

I just tried to move it at the root of Joomla but it change nothing. The database is init with the wrong parameters.

https://github.com/akeeba/fof/blob/development/fof/Model/DataModel.php#L712

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var_dump($this->getDbo())

class JDatabaseDriverMysqli#11 (23) {
  public $name =>
  string(6) "mysqli"
  public $serverType =>
  string(5) "mysql"
  protected $connection =>
  bool(false)
  protected $nameQuote =>
  string(1) "`"
  protected $nullDate =>
  string(19) "0000-00-00 00:00:00"
  private $_database =>
  string(0) ""
  protected $count =>
  int(0)
  protected $cursor =>
  NULL
  protected $debug =>
  bool(false)
  protected $limit =>
  int(0)
  protected $log =>
  array(0) {
  }
  protected $timings =>
  array(0) {
  }
  protected $callStacks =>
  array(0) {
  }
  protected $offset =>
  int(0)
  protected $options =>
  array(9) {
    'driver' =>
    string(6) "mysqli"
    'host' =>
    string(9) "localhost"
    'user' =>
    string(4) "root"
    'password' =>
    string(0) ""
    'database' =>
    string(0) ""
    'prefix' =>
    NULL
    'select' =>
    bool(true)
    'port' =>
    int(3306)
    'socket' =>
    NULL
  }
  protected $sql =>
  NULL
  protected $tablePrefix =>
  string(4) "jos_"
  protected $utf =>
  bool(true)
  protected $utf8mb4 =>
  bool(false)
  protected $errorNum =>
  int(0)
  protected $errorMsg =>
  NULL
  protected $transactionDepth =>
  int(0)
  protected $disconnectHandlers =>
  array(0) {
  }
}

[nikosdion]

I won't have any time to debug this in the next couple of weeks. If you can do it and file a PR I'd appreciate it lots!

[Eighke]

Ok I'll try next week, we will have long holiday here (songkran).