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Welcome to Silex-MVC!

This application is a teaching example of a design pattern MVC based on the SILEX (the PHP micro-framework based on the Symfony2 Components). The purpose of this application is to show the use of some capabilities SILEX micro-framework, and the use of other technologies. Installation examples are for Windows and web server Nginx.

To start working with this application you need to perform some steps:

1. Must be met preliminary requirements
2. Download and install Silex-MVC
3. Configure a local web server, to the entry point was public/index.php
4. Open site in a browser

Prerequisites

• PHP version >= 5.4
• Web server Apache2, Nginx or similar
• Installed Composer

Download and install Silex-MVC

Go to GitHub with our project. Clone or download the project to the appropriate folder (for example c:/NginxServer/html/silex-mvc). Go to the folder where the application was installed and run from a console command composer install

For the operation of the application you need to create a database with the appropriate data. To do this, from the console run command file app/Console/scripts/orm/schema_create.bat.

Configure web server

Install, if necessary, the appropriate permissions to write to the path/to/project/var

Depending on the type of possible different configurations of web server.

For example, for the server Nginx possible this configuration file nginx.conf:

worker_processes 1;

error_log logs/error.log;

events {
    worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
    include mime.types;
    default_type application/octet-stream;
    sendfile on;
    keepalive_timeout 65;
    gzip on;

    # File size for upload
    client_max_body_size 1024m;
    client_body_timeout 120s; 
    client_body_buffer_size 128k;

    upstream backend {
        server 127.0.0.1:9000;
    }

    server {
        listen      8080;
        server_name localhost;
        root        html/;

        location / {
            index   index.html index.php;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
            include       fastcgi_params;
            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        }
    }

    server {
        listen          8080;
        server_name     ~^(?<domain>.+);
        gzip            on;
        ssi             off;

        root  html/$domain/public;

        location    @phpfcgi {
            internal;        
            fastcgi_buffers 16 16k;
            include fastcgi_params;
            fastcgi_param    REQUEST_URI   $request_uri;
            fastcgi_param    SCRIPT_NAME    /index.php;
            fastcgi_param    SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/index.php;
        }

        location     ~ \.(php|php/.*)$ {
            fastcgi_buffers 16 16k;
            include fastcgi_params;
            fastcgi_param    SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        }
    }
}

If you have a server Apache, it is possible tohttpd.conf create a virtual host, such as:

NameVirtualHost *:8080

# localhost
<VirtualHost *:8080>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot "C:/Xampp/htdocs"
</VirtualHost>

# silex-mvc
<VirtualHost *:8080>
    ServerName silex-mvc
    DocumentRoot "C:/Xampp/htdocs/silex-mvc/public"
    ServerAdmin webmaster@read.local
    <Directory "C:/Xampp/htdocs/silex-mvc/public" >
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

The Apache server must support mode mod_rewrite.

You should also make sure that Apache configured to support .htaccess files.

File of .htaccess must be in the public/ folder. The contents of the file .htaccess may look so:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]

For Windows in the file c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts necessary to prescribe

127.0.0.1       silex-mvc

If you are using a proxy, it is necessary in the parameters of the proxy server in the section Do not use proxy server for addresses beginning with to prescribe our address

...;silex-mvc

Open site in a browser

Make sure that the web server is running. Enter in your browser for example this address: http://silex-mvc:8080/