Kusina - The IDE for CakePHP: General Discussion: What features would you want to have?

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Kusina - The IDE for CakePHP was started in April 2009, is owned by Sonny Gauran, and has 4 members.

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What features would you want to have?

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Replies: 2 - Last Post: May 08, 2009 11:34
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Sonny Gauran	Posted: April 29, 2009 06:32 by Sonny Gauran » Permalink
	I'll be posting within the week my compilation for the different functions of Kusina. But other than that, I would love to hear your opinions on what you would want in a CakePHP IDE? Don't hold back!

marknt15

Posted: April 29, 2009 06:44 by marknt15

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Hey Sonny,

Thanks for telling me about this CakePHP IDE project.

These are my suggested features:
- syntax highlighting
- file / project explorer
- search / replace in current file
- search in files
- auto completion for native cakephp syntax / functions
- cakephp automated tasks (like zend studio for eclipse create new zend view file, then it will automatically create the file in the view folder.)
- shortcut in commenting codes
- SVN integration - update, commit

Goodluck

Thanks Grin

Sonny Gauran

Posted: May 08, 2009 11:34 by Sonny Gauran

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In reply to your list, I'll list down some that are already covered already in Netbeans:

PHP Syntax Highlighting
File / PHP Project Explorer
Search / Replace in current file / In Project Folder
Shortcut in commenting codes - using Ctrl+/
SVN Integration - Among (CVS, Mercurial, Clearcase)

And in your request, these are what we need to produce:

Autocompletion for native CakePHP Syntax / Functions
CakePHP automated tasks.

Automation is a bit sensitive as it involves different areas around the Cake APP, but gladly, already solved by CakePHP's Bake utility. I'll show you in a use case what are done by Cake Bake versus what features we want to achieve:

When you create a method in the Controller, say a method named search in the controller UsersController, we should ask/generate also a view named search.ctp from a template in /views/users. Bake does not provide this kind of granular focus on existing views.
When generating a model however, we should take into account by default if it has an existing database table. It would be easier to create files in the project just by bake-ing it per piece - Model, Controller, or Views. The problem here would be integrating the command-line utility in the Kusina IDE. Somehow, a mock-up was achieved as shown in the figure below.

[http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/2817/kusinasample.jpg]

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by: Sonny Gauran

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