The EuroCMS Development Environment

I use vagrant as a development environment, with NGINX, PHP and MariaDB installed.

Tools

• vagrant

And its dependencies.

• IDE(PHPStorm)

I use PHPStorm to develop in, but you can use your own editor.

Steps

After the installation of vagrant, all you need to do is run vagrant up. This will deploy an Ubuntu server with all the needed software.

The Vagrantfile will install and configure all the needed web server software, in the virtual machine.

The host name defined in the NGINX configuration file, is local.eurocms.io. You can set up your host info in /etc/hosts.

192.168.56.20   local.eurocms.io

You can modify the variables in the Vagrantfile, to suit your needs.

EuroCMS

To remember when developing for ECMS, is that on runtime the $_SERVER  array is properly filtered and put in a constant. So the server variables can be viewed via constants, like so: constant(HTTP_HOST);.

The Engine class has allot of ECMS system constant. Like path of libraries, modules Themes and such. Type in Engine:: in IDEs like PHPStorm will show a list with available constants.

Core

Core development steps.

Libraries

Libraries development steps.

Modules

Modules development steps

ActiveModule can have functions. Or can be used to include php file with necessary functions.

Themes

Themes development steps

Widgets

Widgets development steps