Symfony is one of the leading PHP Web frameworks. It is Open-Source and built on top of the Symfony Components.
Getting started
Create a Cloud9 workspace of the type “Custom” or “PHP” (if you experience any issues with the install, trying using another workspace type) and install the Intl extension for PHP that is required in most of the Symfony2 projects:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php5-intl
Then set a valid PHP timezone:
echo 'date.timezone = UTC' | sudo tee --append /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
Now start MySQL-Server:
mysql-ctl install
mysql-ctl start
Create a Symfony-Project
Open your Terminal and execute the following to create a new Symfony-Project
You need the first line only if you used the PHP Project type for your workspace.
rm README.md php.ini hello-world.php
composer create-project symfony/framework-standard-edition symfony/ "2.5.*"
mv symfony/{*,.*} ./
rm -rf symfony
The create-project composer command will ask for a few parameters, the only one you need to pay special attention is the database-host parameter.
Running the project
There is a IP address checking in the web/app_dev.php file. To disable this check please remove the following lines
// This check prevents access to debug front controllers that are deployed by accident to production servers.
// Feel free to remove this, extend it, or make something more sophisticated.
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'])
|| isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'])
|| !in_array(@$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], array('127.0.0.1', 'fe80::1', '::1'))
) {
header('HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden');
exit('You are not allowed to access this file. Check '.basename(__FILE__).' for more information.');
}
After that add a new run configuration in Menu Run > Run Configurations > New Run Configuration. Select Apache http (PHP, HTML) as a Runner and web/app_dev.php as Command. That’s it after you hit Run your server will start up and you can access your new Symfony project.
