[development] Module Builder Module 1.0

Angie Byron drupal-devel at webchick.net
Tue Feb 21 13:26:29 UTC 2006


At DrupalCon, a few of us had talked about how handy it would be to have a
module that automatically generated "scaffolding" for modules, both to help new
developers as well as to speed up the process of creating custom modules for
Drupal veterans.

As a result of a major bout of insomnia, I am pleased to announce that Module
Builder Module 1.0 has been committed to CVS, and even pretty much works! ;) You
can check it out at:

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/module_builder/

WARNING: This module was a lot of 3am++ code and regular expressions, which as
we all know is a deadly combination, so please be kind. ;)

There's obviously a lot more that can be done with this than what's there now,
but I figured I would post this anyway so people can see how it works so far.

Jeff Robbins also created a wireframe (which I tried to use as inspiration to
the extent that I could) of how he envisions this working in later revisions,
which you can see in my sandbox here (warning: PDF):

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/drupal/contributions/sandbox/webchick/module_builder/modulemaker.graffle.pdf?rev=1.1

Anyway, enjoy!

-Angie



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