Laravel PHP Framework

Mac OS X php

Mac OS X php does not have mcrypt extesion. To ease life, download and install php 5.5:

curl -s http://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 5.5 add php to the path:
if using bash: in the end of ~/.profile add this line: export PATH=/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH
if using zsh, in the end of ~/.zshrc add this line: export PATH=/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH

Create mysql DB

Create a mysql UTF-8 db and user, assign all the privileges to that user. Write the host, user, pass and dbname in app/config/database.php, in connections => mysql

install php/js dependencies

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
php composer.phar install
php artisan migrate
brew install npm
npm install -g bower
bower install

running a server

Either you need to install this to a vhost in apache, or just run:

php artisan serve

cordova

install cordova:

sudo npm install -g cordova
sudo npm install -g ios-sim

Build project with:

cd cordova
cordova build ios

Build for android: first set adb directory in cordova/local.properties and cordova/CordovaLib/local.properties

cd cordova
cordova build android

Run with:

cordova emulate ios
cordova emulate android

Release Android: