yii2-giiant

"Giiant is huge!"

PROJECT IS IN BETA STAGE! Note: Major changes from 0.4 to 0.5 ...

What is this?

Giiant is an extended code-generator for models and CRUDs, based upon Gii (Yii 2.0 Framework).

It creates prototypes for database models and backends including relations defined by foreign-key constrains in no-time.

To provide a highly flexible configuration system it features a callback-provider-queue to define rendering of customized inputs, columns or attribute values.

A main project goal is porting many features and learnings from gtc, giix, awecrud and other code-generators into one solution.

Resources

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

composer require schmunk42/yii2-giiant:"*"

The generators are registered automatically in the application bootstrap process, if Gii module is enabled.

Phundament core-module

Usage

To create a full-featured database backend, run the CLI batch command

./yii giiant-batch \
    --modelNamespace=app\\models \
    --crudControllerNamespace=app\\modules\\crud\\controllers \
    --crudSearchModelNamespace=app\\modules\\crud\\models\\search \
    --crudViewPath=@app/modules/crud/views \
    --tables=actor,film,film_actor,language,film_category,category,inventory,store,rental,payment,customer,staff,address,city,country

Features

Model generator

generates separate model classes to customize and base models classes which can be regenerated on schema changes
table prefixes can be stipped off model class names (not bound to db connection settings from Yii 2.0)

CRUD generator

input, attribute, column and relation customization with provider queues
callback provider to inject any kind of code for inputs, attributes and columns via dependency injection
virtual-relation support (non-foreign key relations)
model, view and controller locations can be customized to use subfolders
horizontal and vertical form layout
action button class customization (Select "App Class" option on the Action Button Class option on CRUD generator to customize)

Batch command

creates all models and/or CRUDs for a set of tables sequentially

Extras

Special thanks to motin, thyseus, uldisn and rcoelho for their work, inspirations and feedback.

stphivos / yii2-giiant