What is this?

This a blog implementation built on top of the Symfony2 framework. It's still a work in progress.

I started building this on 2014 and revived it aiming to not having any personal project kept private and / or semifinished.

Why did you do this?

For fun and to learn.

Start the app

Get the code

Clone the app from this repository:

git clone https://github.com/mylk/blog-symfony.git

Enter the application directory:

cd blog-symfony

Having docker?

If you have docker and docker-compose installed, you can run the application in a container:

docker-compose build
docker-compose up

The app now runs on localhost:8000.

Everything is ready and you don't need anything from the following section.

Not having docker?

Install dependencies

Get composer, if you don't have it already and run:

composer install

Database setup:

The app configuration assumes you already have a MySQL instance running. It also assumes that you have a user having username and password set to "root" and "toor" respectively. If this is not your case, you have to modify them from the following configuration file:

app/config/parameters.yml

Change the following parameters' values to fit your needs:

database_user
database_password

The app also assumes that you don't already have a database named "blog". If this is not your case modify the following parameter in the aforementioned configuration file:

database_name

Database schema creation:

Let Doctrine do the job for you:

app/console doctrine:database:create --if-not-exists
app/console doctrine:schema:create
app/console doctrine:schema:update --force

Database initialization

app/console doctrine:fixtures:load -n

Run the application

The following command assumes that you have PHP >= 5.4.0 which provides a built-in web server:

app/console server:run

The app now runs on localhost:8000, you can visit this address to start using it.

Mailer setup

If you want to use the mailer functionality to inform users and the article composers about comments, edit the following in app/config/parameters.yml and add your corresponding Gmail account info:

mailer_user
mailer_password

App administration interface

You can use the administration interface visiting localhost:8000/admin

The following administration account is already set up:

Username: admin
Password: adminpass

Testing

Testing the application requires database dumps have been imported. For instructions, check the sections "Database schema creation" and "Database initialization".

To run the provided tests:

bin/phpunit -c app/

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