package_name for reverse engineering script?

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mflammia Reply #1, 11 years, 4 months ago

Hi,

I am a complete novice at this so I apologies in advance for a possible obvious answer to my quesstion....

I have an existing database that I would like to use with MODX, and been reading a lot about xPDO. I've come to the conclusion I can use the reverse engineering script here

http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Reverse+Engineer+xPDO+Classes+from+Existing+Database+Table

to create the classes I need and then define the relationships afterwards.

The bit I am stuck at what to define as the

// Your package shortname:
$package_name = '';

Its confused me because I just want to create my classes based on my database and not sure what it has to do with a package?

Many thanks in advance.

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Bruno17 Reply #2, 11 years, 4 months ago

Before you can work with xpdo will need to have a xpdo-package.
This means, a file-directory , normally under core/components/XXX
with some subfolders which will contain your schema and some xpdo-classes and map-files after running parse-schema

XXX is your package-name - use allways lowercase packagenames!

you can also use the package-manager-feature of MIGXdb to create your package-folder, run write-schema and parse-schema.
Example how to use it is here:
http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/MIGXdb.Create+doodles+manager+with+help+of+MIGXdb

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mflammia Reply #3, 11 years, 4 months ago

Thanks for replying.

I haven't come across MIGXdb so just looking into that - hit a small problem though, on this page

http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/MIGXdb.Configuration

where is says the following:

Create a new action

System->Actions

right-click 'migx' ->create Action here

controller: index

When actually doing this for real on Revo 2.2.6-pl I have an extra mandatory option called 'Parent Controller' and the options are as follows that isn't documented:

No Action
Core - browser
Core - context
Core - context/create
Core - context/update
Core - context/view
Core - element
Core - element/chunk
Core - element/chunk/create
Core - element/chunk/update
Core - element/plugin
Core - element/plugin/create
Core - element/plugin/update
Core - element/propertyset/index
Core - element/snippet
Core - element/snippet/create
Core - element/snippet/update
Core - element/template
Core - element/template/create
Core - element/template/tvsort

Do you know which one I should pick?

Thanks.

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sottwell Reply #4, 11 years, 4 months ago

Select the top item, I thinks it's none or no parent or something like that.

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mflammia Reply #5, 11 years, 4 months ago

Thanks.

Sorry though, I should added that when I did that and went onto the next step:

Create a new menu

System->Actions

right-click 'Components' ->Place Action here

lexicon key: migx
action: migx - index
parameters: &configs=packagemanager||migxconfigs||setup

When it comes to selecting the action, the drop down list is the same as above with no option for 'migs - index' - which I had just created in the previous step and where I thought I might be going wrong?

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Bruno17 Reply #6, 11 years, 4 months ago

there is a pagination on that selectbox

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mflammia Reply #7, 11 years, 4 months ago

LOL, so there is.

Thanks for your time anyway.

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