SweetLakePHP

Our website at sweetlakephp.nl!

Want to get involved with this project? See our issues (bug/feature) page.

Getting started

Requirements

• A local running webserver like WAMP, XAMPP
• A Meetup account (you'll need an API key)

Installation

Step 1: Fork the project

Go to our Github repository and click "Fork".

Step 2: Get the files from GIT

In a terminal, go to the folder you want to create the project in, and clone your fork:

git clone git@github.com:<username>/SweetLakePHP.git sweetlakephp

Or if your prefer HTTPS in stead of SSH:

git clone https://github.com/<username>/SweetLakePHP.git sweetlakephp

Replace <username> with your Github username.

Step 3: Get your API key from Meetup

• Get your Meetup API key (you'll need an account).

Step 4: Create your config files

In the project 'app' folders you find a folder named 'config'. We must add two files:

• parameters_dev.yml
• parameters_prod.yml

Simply copy the file parameters.yml.dist to parameters_dev.yml and parameters_prod.yml. Edit both files and make and following changes:

• Line 20: meetup_api_key, replace 'key' with your API key.

Extra change for file parameters_dev.yml:

• Line 14: uncomment #mailer_delivery_address, and add your e-mail address.

The file parameters_prod.yml is only required if you use app.php (we encourage developers to use app_dev.php only).

Step 5: Make app/cache and app/logs writable for the webserver

Please read section Setting up Permissions under Configuration and Setup in The Book.

Step 6: Install dependencies with composer

php composer.phar install

Be patient, this process takes some time, if you dont see any errors, then composer ran successfully.

Step 7: Configure your webserver

How the webserver should be configured depends on which webserver you use.

Basic examples for Apache2 and Nginx can be found in Symfony 2's cookbook: Configuring a web server.

Step 8: Almost done (last step)

At this time you should be able to browse to your locally running project (http://localhost/ or whatever you configured in step 7).

The loading will take some time, but if you will see a very basic page that mean composer could not run the last steps.

We have to add the assets to the web folder. That is done with one command.

php app/console assets:install web --symlink
php app/console assetic:dump

Revisit your browser and see if the website is fully loaded.

Congratulations!

Go ahead and make some changes!