Persistent properties for filenames if they deviate from the default filename would be really awesome. Otherwise its nearly impossible to build a custom project profile.
Additionally there should be additional basic types like "Directory", "PhpFile", "OtherFile" which can be used as placeholders for non-application critical resources that need representation though. greetings, Benjamin On Monday 02 November 2009 04:56:08 pm Ralph Schindler wrote: > I am tackling several of these features now, in preparation for the 1.10 > release (this code is and will be in the incubator.) > > > Can anyone elaborate on the .zf.ini properties that are respected or what > > one needs to do to set up custom profiles? > > Custom profiles are pretty much completely, they mostly need > documenting. Overall, the docs need to be better organized. Currently > if you put a project file in your storage directory at (for example): > > .zf/project/profiles/custom.xml > > Then with 1.10 zf client, you'll be able to use it like > > zf create project -n custom ./directory > > This works on my system, but needs to be more throughly tested. > > > Ultimately id like to change the project layout a bit. But for now ill > > settle for enabling certian things. For example these are the key things > > i want by default in every project: > > > > - Config file format should be XML not INI > > - Data dir with log, cache, and uploads > > - Public dir with images, js, css > > > > It seems like all this is doable with jsut certain attribs set on the > > .zfproject.xml and pointing to that xml in the .zf.ini but i cant seem to > > get it to work. > > These types of things can definitely be handled by a custom profile. TO > that though, there are probably a few places where having attributes > persist into the context object make sense (this would make it easier to > customize things like the name of a directory or file). > > I'll keep you updated via the mailing list on the new features I'll be > pushing out this week. > > -ralph -- Benjamin Eberlei http://www.beberlei.de
