0. Prerequisites

>= PHP 5.3.9
MySQL (mysql-client, mysql-server)
php5-mysql
php5-intl
nodejs (with symlink to /usr/bin/node)
LESS (installed through npm)

1. Installation

1. Clone the repository:

    $ git clone https://github.com/edgarasliberis/academicbuddy.git
   

2. Install Composer:

    $ cd academicbuddy
    $ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
   

3. Create a database and user to use with Symfony:

    $ mysql -u root -p
    Enter password:
    
    mysql> create database academicbrother2;
    mysql> create user 'symfony'@'localhost' identified by 'notsosecret';
    mysql> grant all privileges on academicbrother2.* to 'symfony'@'localhost';
   

4. Fetch required vendor dependencies and configure Symfony:

    $ php composer.phar install
   

5. Check your PHP configuration with:

    $ php app/check.php
   

   To get rid of the timezone warning, set the date.timezone setting in /etc/php5/{apache2,cli}/php.ini, in my case to Europe/London

2. Try it out!

To launch a development server, do:

$ php app/console server:run

The server will be accessible through http://localhost:8000/app_dev.php.

3. Generate database tables

1. Create db

    $ php app/console doctrine:database:create
   

2. Generate tables

    $ php app/console doctrine:schema:update --force
   

3. Populate tables with default data

    $ php app/console ab:dbpopulate db_resources/UK_uni_list.txt
   

4. Create an administrator user

    $ php app/console ab:createadmin
   

4. Configure Bootstrap frontend framework

1. Run php app/console assetic:dump to generate assests in /web folder (make them accessible to templates).