Symfony 2 blog app

Getting up and running

Dev environment

I have supplied a Vagrant file for setting up a dev environment on a debian wheezy virtualbox. It requires the the Berkshelf gem and vagrant-berkshelf plugin to be installed (as well as vagrant of course).

$ gem install berkshelf
$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-berkshelf
$ cd vagrant/ && vagrant up

This will install:

• Mysql
• php 5.5
• redis
• nginx
• composer (available globally $ composer)

You can ssh into the box and set up the app, for MySQL you can use the user root and password "rootpass" (configured in the Vagrantfile)

$ cd vagrant/ && vagrant ssh
$ cd /var/www/blog

Asset management

There is one front-end dependency, twitter bootstrap and it is pulled in with the bower package manager. Bower & bootstrap

$ npm install -g bower
$ cd <path-to-repository-root>/web
$ bower install

Prime the app

$ composer install
$ php app/console doctrine:database:create
$ php app/console doctrine:migrations:migrate
$ php app/console cache:clear --env="prod"
$ php app/console assets:install
$ php app/console assetic:dump --env="prod"

Run the test scripts

$ app/console doctrine:database:create --env="test"
$ app/console doctrine:migrations:migrate --env="test"
$ bin/behat
$ bin/phpspec run

Or just use the app http://33.33.33.10 (if using vagrant)

Lastly you can configure the blog title and name:

peterjmit_blog:
    name: Pete's blog
    title: Welcome to Pete's blog!
    posts_per_page: 20 # defaults to 5

Note

If you aren't running this in an environment with redis then you will need to change the following lines (9-13) - either change them to a driver you do have (i.e. apc) or comment them out.

doctrine:
   orm:
       metadata_cache_driver: redis
       result_cache_driver: redis
       query_cache_driver: redis