Clickframes

I’ve spent much of the last week refactoring and extending the Clickframes-PHP code generation plugin, so I thought I’d report on the current state of the project.

The major accomplishment has been upgrading the plugin’s auto-generated model to fully support entities, just like our Java plugins. An app built with Clickframes-PHP will now perform CRUD out of the box, with real databases (MySQL or SQLite). It will also generate “create” and “drop” scripts for both database platforms, and a foreign-key creation script for MySQL.

With that hurdle overcome, the plugin is quite useful, but considerable work remains. Here are the known tasks:

• output
  Needs file display support
• outputList
  Needs action support
  Needs file display support
• form/input
  Needs basic multiple-property support
  Needs client side validation
  Needs full test of all input types
  Needs action type=”update” support
  Needs file upload support
• content
  Needs to be migrated to language file with non-verbatim support
• entity
  Needs default update support in model
• email
  Not yet refactored
• fact
  Need to display in comments throughout code
• authentication
  Not yet refactored.

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