Welcome to the Symfony Sonata Distribution - a fully-functional Symfony2 Sonata application that you can use as the skeleton for your new application.
This distribution exists to save you from repeating all the steps needed to create a basic Sonata app.
This document contains information on how to download, install, and start using Symfony with Sonata. For a more detailed explanation, see the Installation chapter of the Symfony Documentation.
NOTE: For older Symfony versions use the corresponding branch.
- Installing the Sonata Distribution
For now, you just have to clone this repository with a simple git command :
cd path/to/your/webroot
git clone https://github.com/pierre-vassoilles/symfony2-base-project.git ./
Next, you can use the "install_project" shell to initialize the project. Warning : You must have Composer globally installed to use it. The installer will do :
- Create mandatory directories like app/cache, app/logs, data/uploads, web/media (for LiipImagineBundle)
- Composer install --verbose -o
- Set ACLs on some directories if you want to develop with an other user than www-data
- Validate and Update the database
- Load some user fixtures
- Clear all caches
- Install assets with symlinks
- Checking your System Configuration
Before starting coding, make sure that your local system is properly configured for Symfony.
Execute the check.php script from the command line:
php app/check.php
Access the config.php script from a browser:
http://localhost/path/to/symfony/app/web/config.php
If you get any warnings or recommendations, fix them before moving on.
- Set up, initialize and browse the app manually
If you have Composer installed globally on your server, juste do :
composer install -vvv -o
If you don't have Composer yet, download it following the instructions on http://getcomposer.org/ or just run the following command:
curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
Then, run :
php composer.phar install -vvv -o
Before you can run the server and log in to Sonata you need to create the tables first.
./app/console doctrine:schema:create
You can either create a handful of users like this (one of the usernames is 'superadmin' with password 'test')
./app/console doctrine:fixtures:load
Or you can manually create a user yourself
./app/console fos:user:create username emai@example.com password
./app/console fos:user:promote username ROLE_SONATA_ADMIN
./app/console assets:install --symlink --relative web
- Available Bundles
- Symfony Standard Edition 2.8
- Doctrine 2
- FOSUserBundle : friendsofsymfony/user-bundle
- FOS JsRoutingBundle : friendsofsymfony/jsrouting-bundle
- sonata-project/admin-bundle : For admin section
- sonata-project/doctrine-orm-admin-bundle
- liip/imagine-bundle : Very usefull for image display
- knplabs/doctrine-behaviors : Implementing some Traits like Timestampable, Sluggable, SoftDeletable, etc.
- egeloen/ckeditor-bundle : Adds the famous ckEditor to your forms (available for admin section too)
- hpatoio/deploy-bundle : Deployment bundle using rsync command
- icedevelopment/mysql-workbench-schema-exporter : A very userful bundle if you use MySQL Workbench to create your database. It automatically creates your entities from a MySQL Workbench model
- icedevelopment/apc-bundle : Command line tool to clear APC cache and OPCode cache
Skeleton Bundles :
- Ice/EntityBundle : A Bundle where you can put all your entities
- Ice/FrontendBundle : Contains a basic layout, website assets and basic controllers like content pages
- Ice/CommonBundle : Contains common features of the projets like Menu and emails
- Ice/AdminBundle : The admin section. Contains the admin classes and the Sonata overrides
- Ice/UserBundle : Override of the FOSUserBundle