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The Somusar/SoProTech[tm] Booklet Series Volume IX "Code Generation Somusar Style" Printer friendly

Contents
1. Introduction
2. Reproducing a POC on Your Computer
3. J2EE Generator
4. .NET Generator
5. PHP Generator
5.1	Proof-of-concept (POC) Information
5.2	Description
5.3	PHP Generator: Database Access Layer
5.4	PHP Generator: Test Pages
5.5	SQL Generator: Building a MySQL database
6. Java (J2SE) Generator
7. Bare Bones Multitier Generator
8. XML Processor
9. XML Generator
10. API Generator Producing C and HTML
11. VisualBasic.NET Generator Draft
12. VisualBasic.NET Generator
13. XML to Java Generator
14. PHP/HTML Generator
15. Java and JSP DAO Struts Generator
16. Further Reading

Chapter 5 - PHP Generator

5.1 - Proof-of-concept (POC) Information top

Download the free Community Edition to test this generator, or send us an email for any question on this POC.
[POC codename of this generator: php]

Original source code model taken from Jack Herrington's article "Creating Portable Applications with Code Generation".

Level of complexity: low.

Generated with the following SoProMach (what is SoProMach?):

tefigel[tm]: version 104/community - 31Jan05

5.2 - Description top

This compact POC faithfully reproduces the PHP/SQL code generated by Jack Herrington in his article "Creating Portable Applications with Code Generation", published on DevX.

Purpose of this POC and of the POC in the previous paragraph is to demonstrate portability of code generation at two different levels:

Across different target platforms (.NET and a PHP stack, in this case), as already shown in Jack Herrington's article;

Across different code generators, realized with different techniques: the same input model processed by two different generators produces exactly the same code.

Another purpose of this POC is to demonstrate the flexibility and adaptability of the Somusar/Code Generator Building[sm] service: the POC generator reproduces exactly the same coding style (indenting, naming convention for the identifiers) of the original code.

The generator of this POC produces SQL code that builds a simple database, a PHP database access layer for that database, and PHP test pages. The input model for the generator is provided by the same XML file used as input model in the aforementioned article.

All output files are generated from the input model file listed in the following table.

Table 11 - Input Design Files

File name Source code

input.xml View

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Chapter 5 - PHP Generator

5.1 - Proof-of-concept (POC) Information top

5.2 - Description top

5.3 - PHP Generator: Database Access Layer top

5.4 - PHP Generator: Test Pages top

5.5 - SQL Generator: Building a MySQL database top