Setting up a development environment

Flerex · Post by **Flerex** » Sun Dec 16, 2018 12:13 pm

Hello all,

I wanted to ask the community how you setup your development environments when coding extensions for phpBB. I assume most people here use Phpstorm, so I want to ask some questions regarding the configuration.

I checked the official Phpstorm documentation and already configured the code style and inspections files but I still find some non ideal issues. For example, dependencies from the main package that are not directly included in the extension's composer.json file are not found by the IDE.

How do you guys deal with this? Is there anything else you configure in your environments?

Post by **Kailey** » Sun Dec 16, 2018 6:27 pm

This might be helpful - although it doesn't answer your question about Phpstorm.
Knowledge Base - Installing and Setting Up Your Own Web Server

Flerex · Post by **Flerex** » Sun Dec 16, 2018 9:45 pm

Yeah I knew about XAMMP but, to be honest, I prefer Laravel Valet for local development. I find it more handy.

mrgoldy · Post by **mrgoldy** » Mon Dec 17, 2018 11:59 am

Did you try installing the dependencies from the composer.json?
php ../composer.phar install (from root directory).

I also use phpBB Quick Install to generate boards for me.

And make sure you have debug enabled in your config.php.

Flerex · Post by **Flerex** » Mon Dec 17, 2018 1:31 pm

Mmmm I don't have the extension in a phpBB installation. I have a software/ directory in my home folder with my extension's repo and a phpBB installation that was a symlink to the extension's repository. Is it really necessary to have it inside a phpBB installation?

mrgoldy · Post by **mrgoldy** » Mon Dec 17, 2018 1:43 pm

well since you are using PhpStorm, it is "nice" to develop the extension within the phpBB directory (the root./ext/vendor/extension), as it will be able to resolve the classes, functions, etc. That should probably solve most of your issues then.

canonknipser · Post by **canonknipser** » Mon Dec 17, 2018 5:54 pm

I just use a standard local web setup on my linux PC (Apache with Mysql/MariaDB), the phpBB quickinstall tool and as development environment a eclipse IDE with php support. Linking the local copy of phpBB (inside quickinstall alternative source folder), it also resolves all classes.

Flerex · Post by **Flerex** » Mon Dec 17, 2018 8:23 pm

I'm sorry but what is quickinstall?

3Di · Post by **3Di** » Mon Dec 17, 2018 8:24 pm

Flerex wrote: ↑Mon Dec 17, 2018 8:23 pm I'm sorry but what is quickinstall?

mrgoldy wrote: ↑Mon Dec 17, 2018 11:59 am I also use phpBB Quick Install to generate boards for me.

And so do I.

Flerex · Post by **Flerex** » Mon Dec 17, 2018 9:27 pm

I'm going to check it out. Thank you

apollodriver · Post by **apollodriver** » Sun Mar 22, 2020 11:47 am

hello dear Flexrex, canonknipser, 3di, MrGoldi, kinerty,
hello dear fellows

first of all - i hope you are well and all goes okay. How is the situation in your locality - how is your town dealing with the covit19 thing?

i am pretty new to phpBB. i am on Linux (MX-Linux) and i look for a cool development environment.

i have some experience with ATOM - but since VSCode has got approx 19 000 developer at Github /(it is the most vibrant
project on Github) i think i switch to VSCode.

it runs in MX too cf-. https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 49#p566049

as Codium - or
as VSCode

which editor / or which IDE do you run?

look forward to hear from you

regards
apollo

3Di · Post by **3Di** » Sun Mar 22, 2020 11:52 am

apollodriver wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 11:47 am hello dear ... 3di, MrGoldi....
...
which editor / or which IDE do you run?
...

We do use

https://phpbbstudio.com/about (see at the bottom of the page)
and this
https://phpbbstudio.com/tools