Developer Tools for XenForo 2.1.7+

Description

This add-on provides enhancements for add-on developers.

Features

• Show display order...
  • Option group
  • Options
  • Permission groups
  • Permission
• Test template modification against specific style
• Show breadcrumb for style property group
• Show template modification type in breadcrumb
• Show option group when adding option
• Show execution order for template modifications, class extensions and code event listeners (Since 1.2)
• Show style property group name and display order (Since 1.4)
• Show warnings when attempted to check for permissions or permission groups that do not exist (Since 1.2)
• Allow creating permission via permission interface even if permissions already exist (Since 1.2)
• Automatically fill out code event listener callback class and method as well creating listener file or adding just the function
• Exclude files or directories via exclude\_files and exclude\_directories respectively via build.json from add-on archive
• Create multiple phrases at once
• Build add-on archive from ACP
• View template modifications applied on a specific template
• Minify JavaScript files locally
• Lookup what email HTML and plain text was sent (Since 1.3)
• Ability to use full width in admin control panel to make use entire screen (Since 1.4)
• Ability to quickly copy-paste template name shown in template error without needing to change the type (Since 1.4)
• Automatically generate README.md...
  • The following information will be available in README with description whenever possible:
    • Add-on title
    • Add-on description
    • Add-on requirements
    • Options
    • Permissions
    • Admin permissions
    • BB codes
    • BB code media sites
    • Style properties
    • Advertising positions
    • Widget positions
    • Widget definitions
    • Cron entries
    • REST API scopes
    • CLI Commands
  • Further more, you can add your own blocks by creating HTML files named after the hook positions:
    • BEFORE_TITLE
    • AFTER_TITLE
    • BEFORE_DESCRIPTION
    • AFTER_DESCRIPTION
    • BEFORE_REQUIREMENTS
    • AFTER_REQUIREMENTS
    • BEFORE_RECOMMENDATIONS
    • AFTER_RECOMMENDATIONS
    • BEFORE_OPTIONS
    • AFTER_OPTIONS
    • BEFORE_PERMISSIONS
    • AFTER_PERMISSIONS
    • BEFORE_ADMIN_PERMISSIONS
    • AFTER_ADMIN_PERMISSIONS
    • BEFORE_BB_CODES
    • AFTER_BB_CODES
    • BEFORE_BB_CODE_MEDIA_SITES
    • AFTER_BB_CODE_MEDIA_SITES
    • BEFORE_STYLE_PROPERTIES
    • AFTER_STYLE_PROPERTIES
    • BEFORE_ADVERTISING_POSITIONS
    • AFTER_ADVERTISING_POSITIONS
    • BEFORE_WIDGET_POSITIONS
    • AFTER_WIDGET_POSITIONS
    • BEFORE_WIDGET_DEFINITIONS
    • AFTER_WIDGET_DEFINITIONS
    • BEFORE_CRON_ENTRIES
    • AFTER_CRON_ENTRIES
    • BEFORE_REST_API_SCOPES
    • AFTER_REST_API_SCOPES
    • BEFORE_CLI_COMMANDS
    • AFTER_CLI_COMMANDS
  • When an add-on is built, following README variants will be created:
    • BB code version at _dev/resource_description.txt for resource descriptions
    • Markdown version at README.md for any VCS repository

Requirements

• PHP 7.3.0+
• PHP's Intl extension
• PHP's DOM extension
• PHP's JSON extension
• Standard Library by Xon v1.20.1+

Options

Developer Tools (Debug only)

Name	Description
Disable hash checking	For development purposes disabling XF's hash check is required to hotpatch code
Disable XF Template watching	XF's template watching causes a large amount of IO per page, and doesn't touch phrases to template modification. Disable for a boost in performance if it isn't required.
Use full width for admin control panel	If checked, admin control panel will have fluid width instead of fixed width.

CLI Commands

Command	Description
tck-devtools:generate-schema-addon	Generates schema codes from add-on.
tck-devtools:create-class-extension	Creates an XF class-extension for an add-on and writes out a basic template file.
tck-devtools:build-readme	Builds README files for provided add-on.
tck-devtools:clamp-versions	Ensures an add-on does not have phrases or templates with version id's above the addon.json file.
tck-devtools:generate-schema-entity	Generates schema code from an entity
tck-devtools:finder-class-properties	Applies class properties to type hint relations.
tck-devtools:better-export	Exports the XML files for an add-on and applies class properties to type hint columns, getters and relations
tck-devtools:create-entity-from-table	Creates an XF entity for an add-on from a table.
tck-devtools:add-phrase	Creates a phrase for an add-on.
tck-devtools:entity-class-properties	Applies class properties to type hint columns, relations and getters

Scripts

There are some wrapper scripts under scripts directory provided by Xon which can be helpful.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.