For me, more important than code generation support, is the need for proper handling of hinting and auto-completion, as Netbeans doesn’t have knowledge of how Yii resolves it’s variables. Is that functionality implemented yet in your module?
If you could release integration simply with that functionality, and then release the code-generation aspect as a later version, that would be quite appreciated…
I will post the plugin once I have finished the extension API. I am also not sure whether the code will be included in the NetBeans distribution or github at the moment. But I am working on it.
I already force type hinting via phpdoc, but that’s not a proper solution imho.
I’d much rather see Netbeans be able to properly follow (and hint)
Yii::app()->db->...
Which, it currently cannot do.
Maybe that’s asking too much, I dunno. I was under the impression that Netbeans support for Zend & Symfony allowed it to know how to handle magic variables in the framework, so it seemed that the above should be possible once proper Yii support exists…
At the moment the plugin can be used for project generation. I am working on an extension API which will enable developers to add support for their own Yii extensions to the Yii plugin itself.
The initial version is basic because most of the plugin requirements are unknown at this moment, once people start using it, I will know what to added to the plugin for the next version.
You might want to take a look at the features of Yiiclipse and CodeLobster Yii plugin for ideas. I personally find the navigation feature of Yiiclipse to be very useful.