Scanner API

This the backend API for the Scanner app.

It's built using PHP and Symfony Flex.

Setup

1. Install PHP 7
2. Install Composer
3. Clone the source code
4. Install the dependencies with composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader
5. Copy the .env file to a .env.local file.
6. Edit the configuration in your .env.local file:
   Set APP_ENV to prod, change APP_SECRET to a random string, input your DATABASE_URL and enter a custom PUSH_KEY.
7. Setup your web server.
   See this guide for more details on how to setup Apache (easiest) or Nginx (fastest).

For more information about the deployment of a Symfony application look at this guide.

After a successful setup you should be able to open the plain URL in your web browser and see the message Hey.

Contributing

To test your local changes, you have to install Composer.

Then download all required libraries by running composer install.

Run a small integrated web server with the command php bin/console server:run.
Now you can access the page on your PC.