Setting up a Development Environment » History » Version 2
Rick Glunt, 02/08/2010 09:39 AM
| 1 | 1 | Rick Glunt | h1. Setting up a Development Environment |
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| 3 | h2. Introduction |
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| 5 | If you start developing for the project or just with VirtueMart you may have already set up a development environment with an IDE and a SVN program. |
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| 7 | If you haven't done so or if you want to know what to do better, you can follow the instructions given on this page. |
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| 9 | The following programs are recommended for working with VirtueMart and synchronizing the working directory with the local SVN repository: |
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| 11 | 2 | Rick Glunt | * SmartSVN (a very easy, but professional platform-independent SVN program) |
| 12 | * Total Commander (perfect for sync'ing the contents of two directories) |
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| 13 | * Ant (for building installable packages) |
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| 14 | * Zend Studio (the state of the art when it comes to a PHP IDE, costs!) |
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| 15 | * or PHP Development Tools for Eclipse (very good PHP IDE and free!) |
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| 17 | Of course there are other programs that can do the same as the ones mentioned above, but remember: these are just recommendations. |
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| 19 | h2. Setup an IDE and SVN |
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| 21 | If you want to join the project it is important that you have a similar environment like the other devs, so it makes it easier for everyone to help each other. |
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| 23 | First setup up an IDE, I suggest you follow the explanations here: http://docs.joomla.org/Setting_up_your_workstation_for_Joomla!_development |
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| 25 | After that download the installer of virtuemart and install it in joomla. AFTER that configure the SVN. |
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| 27 | The SVN folder structure is setup with 3 root folders; trunk, tags and branches. The trunk folder is used for curent active development. The tags folder is used for public releases. The branches folder can be used for code branches. |
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| 29 | The structure found under these root folders mimic the structure in a typical Joomla installation, however, only contain the VirtueMart code. This gives us the ability to easily commit and checkout directly from a Joomla installation as described above. |
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| 31 | There are 3 different folders for backend, frontend and modules |
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| 33 | 2 | Rick Glunt | * trunk/administrator/components/com_virtuemart |
| 34 | * trunk/components/com_virtuemart |
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| 35 | * trunk/modules/(..not ready, we are pleased if you want to write a module) |
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| 37 | The /trunk is your joomla base root = jRoot. |
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| 39 | At best is if you have a joomla installation and make 1 checkout for back and frontend. Before you can checkout the svn you should delete the files that are installed by the vm installer. Just delete this directories |
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| 41 | 2 | Rick Glunt | * administrator/components/com_virtuemart |
| 42 | * components/com_virtuemart |
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| 44 | 1 | Rick Glunt | and the language files named en-GB.com_virtuemart.ini in |
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| 46 | * administrator\language |
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| 47 | * language |
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| 49 | use for checkout on the joomla base root: |
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| 51 | svn co https://dev.virtuemart.net/svn/virtuemart/trunk/virtuemart |
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| 53 | After updating you should have the newest version of VirtueMart |
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| 55 | If you want to check the mails you may want to use hamster as mailserver |