Often, by creating new projects, developers can face some issues such as what components they should create, where to place them in the application structure, what each component would implement, what naming convention to follow, and so on. Actually, creating custom components isn't a difficult matter; we will sort it out in this chapter. We will create our own component, which will display different menus on your site depending on where we are in the application.
From one project to another, the developer's work is usually repeated. This holds true for tasks such as creating the project structure, configuration, creating data models, controllers, views, and so on. For those tasks, we will discover the power of Phalcon Developer Tools and how to use them. You will learn how to create an application skeleton by using one command, and even how to create a fully functional application prototype in less than 10 minutes without writing a single line of code.
Developers often come up...