ChickenWire example project

If you want to start using the ChickenWire PHP framework, the easiest way is to start with this empty example project.

Prerequisites

ChickenWire has the following prerequisites:

• PHP 5.3+
• .htaccess
• Composer

Installing Composer

ChickenWire is a Composer package, and can be installed as a requirement of your project. Before you checkout this project, make sure you have installed Composer.

Composer

Installing ChickenWire

1. Clone this project

Start by installing this example project into a folder on your webserver, by cloning this project, or downloading a zip.

git clone git://github.com/rseyferth/chickenwire-exampleproject.git my-project

2. Install composer packages

Open a terminal/command prompt in the project directory and run a composer install:

composer install

This will install ChickenWire, along with some dependencies. You can also add more dependencies by editing the composer.json file.

3. Check configuration

Take a look at the default configuration in Application/Config/Application.php, and change the values where necessary.

4. Enjoy the chicken

When you now open your browser to the url of your directory, you should now see the welcome message, indicating that everything works!

Updating ChickenWire

In your composer.json the required version of ChickenWire is currently set to dev-master. Once ChickenWire gets out of development status you will be able to set it to a certain version.

Meanwhile, to update ChickenWire to the latest development version, simple run a composer update:

composer update