Simple Weblog in OOP

A show-and-tell project to show my students how to create a simple but extendable and maintainable web application in php.

Features

PHP´s internal server
sqlite database
composer autoload

Run locally

Clone the project.

git clone https://github.com/steffengrahl/simple-weblog-oop.git

Go to the project directory.
```
cd simple-weblog-oop/
```

Install composer locally in this project.

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php composer-setup.php --install-dir=bin --filename=composer
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

You can find the instructions at getcomposer.org

Go to the public folder of the project
```
cd public/
```
Run install command. This will prepare the database, copy the .env file and install all dependencies with composer
```
make install
```
Start PHP´s internal server.
```
php -S localhost:8000
```

Usage

Database

You don't have to create a database on your own. If you run the command make install the database will be created with all needed tables and columns. If there is something wrong with your database please run the command make install-database¹ to reinstall again.

Footnotes

¹ you will lose all data stored in your database