RIBBIT a twitter clone

powered by PHP, Symfony, Silex and Doctrine ORM

Ported to Silex by M.PARAISO : mparaiso@online.fr

Live Demo : http://silex-ribbit.herokuapp.com/

INSTALLATION

Requirements :

• Apache Server : http://httpd.apache.org/
• PHP >= 5.3 : http://php.net/
• Mysql : http://www.mysql.com/
• Composer : http://getcomposer.org

Setup :

• Install composer, install composer packages with command : composer install
• create a apache server virtual host , the web root folder is /web
• create these environment variables , on the system level if you want to be able to use the console cli :
  • RIBBIT_HOST
  • RIBBIT_DATABASE
  • RIBBIT_USERNAME
  • RIBBIT_PASSWORD
  • RIBBIT_DRIVER : should be "pdo_mysql"
  • RIBBIT_ENVIRONMENT development or production
• change the index page of the htaccess in /web folder , to index_dev.php for development , or index.php for producion in development error will be displayed and you can check application logs in /log/silex.log
• create the database in mysql
• go the project root. use the console utility to create tables in the database :
  • console orm:schema-tool:create
  • if it doesnt work , use the sql script file located in /database/ribbit.sql to create the database.
• chmod the following folders to +w : /cache , /log
• start or restart the server

Help :

check Ribbit tutorial on nettutsplus :

• http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/building-ribbit-in-rails/
• http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/building-ribbit-in-php/

Why ?

• help learn Silex
• help learn Symfony framework
• help learn Doctrine ORM
• help learn PHP