symfonite-project

A symfony project linked to the symfonite plugins

About symfonite

Symfonite is a symfony 1.4 (http://www.symfony-project.org/) extension intended to:

• make easier the management of users, roles and applications, allowing to organize them in a very complete and flexible way through a backend application from which all the system is configured and controlled.

• easily build scaffolded symfonite applications which are plugged in the overall system. These applications are registered in the system and can be linked to the users trough credentials. They also are provided with a common menu from which the user can change the role, jump to another application, change its personal configuration and logout. A custom menu can be added and builded by using the menu-builder tool of the backend application.

• Allow the Federated Identity. The symfonite applications can act as a service provider in an application federation, and its identification system can also act as a identity provider. Build application federations and integrate symfonite in an existing one is an easy task. At this moment, SAML (http://simplesamlphp.org/) and PAPI (http://papi.rediris.es/) protocols are implemented.

The extension consits in a combination of symfony plugins. Some of them have been developed at the Departamento de Telemática y Desarrollo del Instituto de Tecnologías Educativas (http://www.ite.educacion.es/), and some others are well-known symfony plugins.

Installation

Inside a directory within the DocumentRoot of your web server:

• git clone git://github.com/juanda/symfonite-project.git .
• git submodule init
• git submodule update

That's all. Now you have an empty symfony-1.4 project with the symfonite extension plugged. In order to know what you can do with this, you should follow the tutorial:

http://ntic.educacion.es/desarrollo/docs/sft/tutoriales/tutorial-1.html

from the 3th point (the precedents say how to deploy the framework from a tgz file)

However in order to know something more about symfonite we recommend to take a look at the symfonite site:

http://ntic.educacion.es/desarrollo/symfonite/

Note: At this moment the documentation is available only in spanish :-(. The tutorial source (in rst format) is available in docs directory of this project.