[Agavi-Dev] Having modules, modules.base and other modules folders

[Jan Schütze]

Hello list,

today I played with (bit) extending agavi a bit.

The aim: Multiple modules folders (app/modules, app/modules.base,
app/modules.xxx ... ).
The reason: Another possibility to sort and arrange modules.

This all worked, without any change to agavi - yay! The custom
controller had this new initializeModule method:
http://gist.github.com/349541

This little addition to settings.xml.
<settings prefix="modules.">
<setting
name="folders">%core.app_dir%/modules.core,%core.app_dir%/modules.base,%core.app_dir%/modules.xxx</setting>
</settings>

Then the config_handler was not happy at all, so I modified the
config_handler-urls from:
<handler pattern="%core.module_dir%/*/config/module.xml"
class="AgaviModuleConfigHandler">
to:
<handler pattern="%core.module_dir%*/*/config/module.xml"
class="AgaviModuleConfigHandler">
(mind the * right behind %core.module_dir%).

After a while I found out, that getModel did not work as it was
supposed to be. So I created a custom Context and extended the
getModel function by those two little lines:
// let's try to autoload the baby
if(!class_exists($class)) {
// it's not there. the hunt is on
+ $lowerModuleName = strtolower($moduleName);
+ $file = AgaviConfig::get('modules.' . $lowerModuleName
. '.path') . '/models/' . $modelName . 'Model.class.php';
}

That's it.

So here is what I ended up with, what could be useful:
- The tiny AgaviConfig::get('modules.' . $lowerModuleName . '.path')
could be handy after initializeModule was called, to get module path
without building it by hand everytime
- Allowing multiple folders as modules-folder is not as difficult as
it seems to be.
- There are some places in agavi left, which may not work yet (for
instance action/global filters aren't supported, yet!)

What do you think?
Worth further investigation?
How do you organize Core and Default-Modules (incl.
routing+actions+views) in your agavi projects?

Thanks for reading and kind regards,
Draco

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http://dracoblue.net

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