Hi, folks!
It seems this is the right place to brainstorming, so here we go!
I think Gii should have the option to localize the files it generates. This is specially useful for monolingual applications, on which an url like ‘http://myapp.com.br/cliente/create’ (‘cliente’ is the Portuguese word for ‘customer’) would sound strange.
I managed to “translate” the CRUD generation into Portuguese (the hard-coded way), so, by example, my actionCreate are now generated as actionInserir. Although not strictly necessary, I’ve translate the views filenames as well.
Another point: I modified the function generateActiveField() in gii/generators/crud/CrudeCode.php to look like this:
<?php
(...)
public function generateActiveField($modelClass, $column)
{
/* MY CODE BEGINS HERE */
foreach (CActiveRecord::model($modelClass)->relations() as $relation)
if ($relation[0] == CActiveRecord::BELONGS_TO && $column->name == $relation[2]) {
$relSchema = CActiveRecord::model($relation[1])->tableSchema;
$descrField = $relSchema->primaryKey;
foreach ($relSchema->columns as $col)
if (preg_match('/^(descr_|nome_)/i', $col->name)) {
$descrField = $col->name;
break;
}
return "\$form->dropDownList(\$model, '{$column->name}',
CHtml::listData({$relation[1]}::model()->findAll(), '{$relSchema->primaryKey}', '$descrField'),
array('prompt'=>''));";
}
if ($column->type === 'boolean')
return "\$form->checkBox(\$model,'{$column->name}')";
else if ($column->dbType == 'date') {
$dayNamesMin = 'array("Dm", "Sg", "Tr", "Qr", "Qt", "Sx", "Sb")';
$dayNamesShort = 'array("Dom", "Seg", "Ter", "Qua", "Qui", "Sex", "Sáb")';
$dayNames = 'array("Domingo", "Segunda-feira", "Terça-feira", "Quarta-feira", "Quinta-feira", "Sexta-feira",
"Sábado")';
$monthNamesShort = 'array("Jan", "Fev", "Mar", "Abr", "Mai", "Jun", "Jul", "Ago", "Set", "Out", "Nov", "Dez")';
$monthNames = 'array("Janeiro", "Fevereiro", "Março", "Abril", "Maio", "Junho", "Julho", "Agosto", "Setembro",
"Outubro", "Novembro", "Dezembro")';
return "\$this->widget('zii.widgets.jui.CJuiDatePicker', array('model'=>\$model,
'attribute'=>'{$column->name}', 'options'=>array('showAnim'=>'fold', 'dateFormat'=>'dd/mm/yy',
'dayNamesMin' => $dayNamesMin, 'dayNamesShort' => $dayNamesShort, 'dayNames' => $dayNames,
'monthNamesShort' => $monthNamesShort, 'monthNames' => $monthNames)), true)";
}
else if ($column->dbType == 'datetime')
return "\$form->widget('CMaskedTextField',array('model'=>\$model, 'attribute'=>'{$column->name}', 'mask'=>'99/99/9999 99:99', 'placeholder'=>' ', ), true)";
else
/* MY CODE ENDS HERE */
if (stripos($column->dbType, 'text') !== false)
return "\$form->textArea(\$model,'{$column->name}',array('rows'=>6, 'cols'=>50))";
else
{
if (preg_match('/^(password|pass|passwd|passcode)$/i', $column->name))
$inputField = 'passwordField';
else
$inputField = 'textField';
if ($column->type !== 'string' || $column->size === null)
return "\$form->{$inputField}(\$model,'{$column->name}')";
else
{
if (($size = $maxLength = $column->size) > 60)
$size = 60;
return "\$form->{$inputField}(\$model,'{$column->name}',array('size'=>$size,'maxlength'=>$maxLength))";
}
}
}
(...)
?>
A brief summary of what I’ve added:
-
Fields whose dbType is ‘date’ have CJuiDatePickers generated for them (I added Portuguese translations for day and month names - this must be moved to the message system in the “real world”);
-
Fields whose dbType is ‘datetime’ hava CMaskedTextField generated for them, with an appropriate mask, of course.
And the most time-saving feature I’ve introduced:
- Fields that have a CActiveRecord::BELONGS_TO relation attached to them automagically got dropdownlists, already linked to the models they belong. I know it’s a bit hard to determine which would be the textfield (in my case, are those starting with ‘descr_’), but I think that picking the second field on the related model would be a good guess.
What do you think?
