README

for usage in CakePHP 3.x see the 2.x branch

Save the schema into one file and use as an automatic schema for Fixtures. The schema is automatically saved when executing cake migrations migrate. This also allows for local testing with test suite data for debugging.

Supported datasources

• Postgres
• MySQL
• SQLite
• SQL Server not tested yet

Installation

You can install this plugin into your CakePHP application using composer.

The recommended way to install composer packages is:

composer require raul338/cakephp-schema

Update your Application class:

public function bootstrapCli()
{
    // ....
    $this->addOptionalPlugin('Schema');
}

Usage

The plugin saves the schema of the default connection to the config/schema.php file. The structure is similar to the fixtures fields.

cake schema save

To load the schema back, useful for debug with test data. Run:

cake schema load

Seed

The Schema plugin allows you to seed data from the config/seed.php file. This also is useful to save unrelated tables (like tables from acl plugin, or sphinxlog table) The seed.php file should return array of tables and rows:

<?php
    // You can work with custom libraries here or use the Cake's ORM
    return [
        'articles' => [
            [
                'id' => 1,
                'category_id' => 1,
                'label' => 'CakePHP'
            ],
            [
                'id' => 2,
                'label' => 'Schema plugin',
                'json_type_field' => [
                    'i' => 'will convert',
                    'to' => 'json'
                ]
            ]
        ],
        'categories' => [
            [
                'id' => 2,
                'label' => 'Frameworks'
            ]
        ]
    ];

The Seed commands support the CakePHP ORM's type mapping. So for example, if you're using the JsonType example from the cookbook, the seed commands will automatically convert an array to JSON.

You can use the schema generateseed command to automatically generate a seed.php file based on your database contents.

Use schema seed for importing the contents of the seed.php into your DB.

Seed commands will take the following options:

• connection Database connection to use.
• seed Path to the seed file to generate (Defaults to "config/seed.php")
• path Path to the schema.php file (Defaults to "config/schema.php")

Other examples

cake schema save --connection test
cake schema save --path config/schema/schema.lock
cake schema load --connection test --path config/schema/schema.lock --no-interaction

To only drop all tables in database

cake schema drop
cake schema drop --connection test

Seeding Examples

cake schema seed --truncate
cake schema generateseed --seed config/my_seed.php

In case you are using Tree Behavior in your table, you can recover the tree from seed data: (it will recalculate lft & rght values)

cake recover_tree categories

Fixture generation

This plugins allows to use generated schema and seeds as fixture model and data, by using a SchemaFixture. You can extend your fixtures just like the book indicates.

Example usage:

bin/cake bake fixture --theme Schema Users

<?php
declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Test\Fixture;

use Schema\TestSuite\Fixture\SchemaFixture;

class UsersFixture extends SchemaFixture
{
    // This class reads schema from users key in config/schema.php
    // and reads records from users key in config/seed.php if exists
}

TODO

• Auto-creation of the schema.php file after cake migrations migrate
• Data seeding
• Tests
• More options and configuration
• Refactoring and cleaning the code