create extension with gii Extension Generator

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

Hi I wanted to create an extension with the gii Extension Generator.

And wanted to test it only "locally".

Therefore i filled the fields with this values:

vendor: myself

packagename: yii2-foobar

namespace: myself\foobar\

type: yii2-extension

keywords: yii2,extension

title: foobar

output path: @vendor/myself

Because i wanted to test it only locally and not on git i added this to my composer.json file.




"repositories":[

    {

        "type": "git",

        "url": "https://path.to/your/repo"

    }

]

and replaced the url with the recommended value


Note: You may use the url file://D:\wamp\www\yii2\my_app\vendor\myself/yii2-foobar for testing.

OK i fixed the \ with \\

"url" : "file://D:\\wamp\\www\\yii2\\my_app\\vendor\\myself/yii2-foobar"

But always getting errors on composer update




 [Composer\Repository\InvalidRepositoryException]

 No valid composer.json was found in any branch or tag of file://D:/wamp/www/yii2/my_app/vendor/myself/yii2-foobar, could not load a package from it.

The path is correct and is the generated composer.json of the extension where i can’t find a problem.

Any hints?

Maybe the path is not correct on Windows Systems?

i also tried




"url" : "file://D:\\wamp\\www\\yii2\\my_app\\vendor\\myself\\yii2-foobar"

"url": "file://./vendor/myself/yii2-foobar"

"url" : "D:\\wamp\\www\\yii2\\my_app\\vendor\\myself/yii2-foobar"

"url" : "./vendor/myself/yii2-foobar"

"url" : "/vendor/myself/yii2-foobar"

"url" : "file://D:\\wamp\\www\\yii2\\my_app\\vendor\\myself/yii2-foobar"

So what is the correct path under windows or what could cause the problem?

regards Horizons

2

Have you committed the files into the local repository? composer only considers files under version control because it checks via git and not via file system.

3

What? it is not possible to "test" local files without any git or cvs?

If i look at this thread it seems to also work locally.

http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php/topic/51843-local-extensions/

edit solved

i had several problems.

  1. my editor “gitpad” wans’t correctly installed in my “portable” github version…

  2. i shouldn’t have changed the output path to @vendor/myself and leave it to @app/runtime/tmp-extensions

  3. i did’t understand the extension generator that i have to call the git commands if i only want a local extension.

git init

git add -A

And also have to enter at least "something" in git commit file and save which opens on commit.

git commit

afterwards extend my composer.json with




"repositories":[

        {

            "type": "git",

            "url" : "file://D:\\wamp\\www\\yii2\\myapp\\vendor\\myself\\yii2-foobar"

        }

    ]

and call




composer.phar require myself/yii2-foobar:dev-master

to install the local git version from my @app/runtime/tmp-extensions to my @vendor\myself directory.

I really thought this would be not that difficult to develop only locally and upload it to some git account at a later state.

But I must say that i don’t have much git experience so far.