Magento Dev setup

Features

• Load Magento modules from anywhere.
• All Magento logs will be printend in one file.
• Includes a cli script with some useful tools.

Installation

Just clone this repo and then download the dependencies by running:

git submodule init
git submodule update

Add the dev.php file to you auto_prepend_file setting in php.ini. You can also include dev.php in your project's index.php.

To use the mage cli toolbox, create a symlink to <dev root>/magento/mage.sh in any dir that is included in yor $PATH environmental var. For example:

ln -s /var/www/magento-dev/magento/mage.sh ~/bin/mage

Now you can just type mage in your terminal to start the toolbox. You need to be in your Magento root dir to enable all tools.

Configuration

When you make a request to your webserver or run php from the terminal this dev module will first include
<dev root>/local.php if it exists.

Put your local includes there.

Then it will check if the request is actually to a Magento project. If a Magento project is detected, configuration will be read in the following order:

1. <dev root>/magento/default.php
2. <dev root>/magento/local.php
3. <magento root>/dev/default.php
4. <magento root>/dev/local.php

This way you can have your global config in the first two files and the project specific config in file 3 and 4. If you add local.php to your project's .gitignore you will enable each developer to have their own settings.

Check <dev root>/magento/default.php for documentation on each setting.

Load external modules or files

You can load external files with this dev module. It can be either a Magento module or just template/skin/js files. If you want to load static files you need to configure your webserver to make them accessable through an url.

To load external modules or files, add $config->loadExternal($path, $url) to your config files.

If you have set up $config->setModulePath($path) and $config->setModuleUrl($url) in your global config you can just add $config->loadExternal('example') to load the module example from your module dir. Check the default.php config file for more info on how to set this up.