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This module provides all the installation steps for PHP Booosta.

Booosta allows to develop PHP web applications quick. It is mainly designed for small web applications. It does not provide a strict MVC distinction. Although the MVC concepts influence the framework. Templates, data objects can be seen as the Vs and Ms of MVC.

Up to version 3 Booosta was available at Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/booosta/. From version 4 on it resides on Github and is installable from Packagist under buzanits/booosta-installer. Sorry, there will be no (easy) upgrade path from Booosta 3 to Booosta 4.

Installation

Requirements

PHP >= 8.0
composer >= 2.3
Installation of Booosta is done with composer. If you don't have composer installed, see https://getcomposer.org.
Mysql or MariaDB
mysqli PHP module
Use of .htaccess must be enabled in Webserver
In Apache config use something like AllowOverride all

Install your Booosta App

If you want to use a Mysql or MariaDB database set it up togehter with a user that can access it.

#> composer create-project booosta/installer mycoolproject
#> cd mycoolproject
#> composer letsgo

Then you answer some questions about your database connection
You can install additional Booosta modules with

#> composer require booosta/modulename

Let the web root on your web server point to this directory (mycoolproject in this example)

Create your Application

Create the DB tables for your data with your favorite tools (like phpmyadmin)
Create the PHP and template files for every table with

#> composer mkfiles

Enter the name of the table you want the files to be created for
If there is a subtable or supertable enter their name or leave the answer empty
Edit the PHP files and templates to your need
Be aware that calling the mkfiles command will overwrite existing files!

Tutorial

See the tutorial at https://github.com/buzanits/booosta-installer/blob/master/tutorial/tutorial.md

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