Platform Applications Tips and Tricks

Latest revision as of 13:16, 29 August 2012

You can make web and command line applications on the Joomla Platform. The

[edit] CLI Applications

[edit] Making sure you can run PHP CLI applications

To make sure you can run php on your command line you can do the following test: Make a file called clitest.php that consists of:

<?php echo "Hello World"; ?>

Then at your command prompt type: php clitest.php You should get a Hello World message.

[edit] Setting Error Handling

 
// Set error handling levels
 
JError::setErrorHandling( E_ERROR, 'echo');
JError::setErrorHandling( E_WARNING, 'echo' );
JError::setErrorHandling( E_NOTICE, 'echo' );

[edit] Setting Error Reporting

Turn error reporting to high with:

/**
 
 * Turn on strict error reporting during development
 
 */
 
ini_set('display_errors', '1');
 
ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL | E_STRICT);

[edit] Configuration

You can make a configuration.php file just like in the CMS to store your database and other information. Use fetchConfigurationData() to get the information.

If you don't need configuration you can do this:

        protected function fetchConfigurationData()
        {
        return array();
        }

[edit] Web Applications

[edit] Sessions with no database

If you are not using a database you should put:

// We're setting session to false because we aren't using a database so there is no where to store it.
$config = Array ('session'=>false);

to keep the application from attempting to store a session.

[edit] Configuration

You can make a configuration.php file just like in the CMS to store your database and other information. Use fetchConfigurationData() to get the information.

If you don't need configuration you can do this:

        protected function fetchConfigurationData()
        {
        return array();
        }