README

This repository provides a starting point for building Silex applications. It includes:

A directory structure
Stubs and default configuration
CI/QA config

This repo is complemented by aptoma/silex-extras, which contains various helpers, base classes and services. The idea is that you will never need to do a rebase of Silex Bootstrap, as all significant updates will be handled by Silex Extras, which you can simply update through Composer. In fact, you should delete the .git directory after downloading the project.

To start a new project, run:

$ composer create-project aptoma/silex-bootstrap <target-dir>

To get started, you probably want to have a look at app/app.php to see the config bootstrap, and then have a look app/routing.php, src/App/Controller/DefaultController.php and src/App/views for some basic actions.

This repo contains a few example files and comments like this one, that should obviously not remain within the project. When ready, delete everything in this section, and update the following sections according to your project.

Project Name

Tech Lead: name email@aptoma.com

Product Description

Purpose

A clearly defined and documented purpose and lifetime

Technologies

A description of technologies and components/modules

Integration with other company products

A description of other company products in use/integrated with

External Dependencies

A description of external dependencies (both people and systems)

Roadmap

Roadmap and maintenance plan

Folder Outline

app     # Config and bootstrap
src     # Application code and views
tests   # All tests
web     # Public doc root. Front controller and assets.

During installation and CI these folders may also be created:

build        # Reports from various build tasks
node_modules # Dependencies managed by npm
vendor       # Dependencies managed by Composer

By default, logs and cache is written to app/log and app/cache respectively.

Installation

Describe how to install

Development

Install dependencies (requires Composer, [NPM](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package- manager) and Bundler to be installed globally)

$ composer --dev install
$ npm install
$ bundle install

You also need to install jshint and grunt-cli globally:

$ npm install -g jshint@0.9.1
$ npm install -g grunt-cli@0.1.6

Set up paths for logging and caching:

$ grunt mac-paths # or ubuntu-paths if you are using ubuntu
# OR if your web server doesn't run as the default _www
$ grunt exec:mac-paths:<web_server_user>
# OR grunt exec:ubuntu-paths:<web_server_user>

To watch your project, run bundle exec guard;

Permissions

For local development, you need to setup cache and log dirs:

mkdir -p app/cache
mkdir -p app/log

These directories must be writable both by the web server and the command line user. On a UNIX system, if your web server user is different from your command line user, you can run the following commands just once in your project to ensure that permissions will be setup properly. Change www-data to your web server user:

1. Using ACL on a system that supports chmod +a (Typically MAC OS X)

Many systems allow you to use the chmod +a command. Try this first, and if you get an error - try the next method:

$ sudo chmod +a "_www allow delete,write,append,file_inherit,directory_inherit" app/cache app/log
$ sudo chmod +a "`whoami` allow delete,write,append,file_inherit,directory_inherit" app/cache app/log

2. Using Acl on a system that does not support chmod +a (Typically Ubuntu)

Some systems don't support chmod +a, but do support another utility called setfacl. You may need to enable ACL support on your partition and install setfacl before using it (as is the case with Ubuntu), like so:

$ sudo setfacl -R -m u:www-data:rwx -m u:`whoami`:rwx app/cache app/logs
$ sudo setfacl -dR -m u:www-data:rwx -m u:`whoami`:rwx app/cache app/logs

Describe other stuff needed for local development

Testing

PHP Tests are powered by PHPUnit. You have several options.

Run phpunit if PHPUnit is installed globally.
Run bin/vendor/phpunit to run version installed by Composer. This ensures that you are running a version compatible with the test suite.
Run grunt phpunit, basically just a wrapper for bin/vendor/phpunit
Run bundle exec guard to watch files and run tests when source or test files change

JavaScript testing is under development.

Contributing

Describe guidelines for contributing.

To contribute to this project, simply create a feature branch, do your thing, and open a pull request. If you do lot's of stuff in your project that you think should be easily backported to older silex-bootstrap based projects, consider extracting them to separate packages that can be managed by Composer, or add them to silex-extras.

aptoma / silex-bootstrap

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