XWC Symfony Sandbox

What is XWC Symfony?

It is an open source CMS built on Symfony2 framework with use of the Twig templating engine as well as the Doctrine ORM. The project is an initiative of Tangent Labs Ltd.

Requirements

Symfony is only supported on PHP 5.3.2 and up. To check the compatibility of your environment with Symfony, you can run the web/check.php script, bundled with this sandbox.

Installation instructions

1. Fork the project on github

2. Set permissions

   chmod 777 app/cache -R
   chmod 777 app/logs -R

3. Set dbal connection and orm in app/config/config.yml

   doctrine.dbal:
     host:     localhost
     dbname:   xwc_sandbox
     user:     root
     password: root
   doctrine.orm: ~

4. create database

   php app/console doctrine:database:create

5. create table on database

   php app/console doctrine:schema:create

6. load fixtures via doctrine

   php app/console doctrine:data:load

   7. generate the proxies for the entities

      php app/console doctrine:generate:proxies

7. go to "http://WEBSERVER/xwc_sandbox/web/app_dev.php/show/homepage"

Recommendation on YML / PHP / XML configuration

• We use YML for configuration
• We use twig for templating