README

Development of Wordpress plugins with Yii2 framework

Quick Start

Create a new Wordpress plugin by creating a new folder in eg. wp-content/plugins/awesome-plugin and run/execute these tasks that that folder:

• create composer.json with at least this:

{
	"repositories": [
		{
			"type": "composer",
			"url": "https://asset-packagist.org"
		}
	]
}

• run composer require winternet-studio/yii2-wordpress-glue
• create the wordpress plugin bootstrap file eg. awesome-plugin.php (replace myplugin with name of your plugin):

<?php
// wp-content/plugins/awesome-plugin/awesome-plugin.php

use winternet\yii2wordpress\KernelRunner;

require_once(__DIR__ .'/vendor/autoload.php');

$config = [
	'aliases' => [
		'@myplugin' => __DIR__,  //this will become your namespace, eg. myplugin\models\MyModel
	],
	'language' => 'en-US',
	'components' => [
		'cache' => [
			'class' => 'yii\caching\FileCache',
			'defaultDuration' => 600,
		],
		'i18n' => [
			'translations' => [
				'myApp*' => [
					'class' => 'yii\i18n\PhpMessageSource',
					'forceTranslation' => true,
					'basePath' => dirname(__DIR__) . '/messages',
				],
			],
		],
	],
];

$isDebug = true;  //set true during development
$kernel = new KernelRunner($config, null, $isDebug);
$kernel->run();

Translations

look at the $config-array in the example above: The i18n-Component is configured with basePath "plugin/messages". Refer to the Yii2-Documentation for more informations.

Migrations

• create a folder "migrations" in your Application (wp-content/plugins/awesome-plugin/migrations)
• on the cli: vendor/bin/yii2wp migrate/create 'MyMigrationName'

A new file should be generated in your migrations folder:

<?php
class m191119_103515_createTables extends \yii\db\Migration {
	/**
	 * {@inheritdoc}
	 */
	public function safeUp() {
		$this->createTable(
			'{{%mymodule_mytable}}',
			array_merge(\winternet\yii2wordpress\helpers\MigrationHelper::getSystemCols(), [
				'foo' => $this->text(),
				'bar' => $this->string(10)
			])
		);
	}
}

Core Migration

vendor/bin/yii2wp migrate/create --migrationPath=@Yii2Wordpress/migrations 'AddTemplates'

Credits

This is originally a fork of Henry Volkmer's project but many changes have been changed.