A Yii2 Site for hosting your own Snippets with Member accounts

• Showcase your code snippets
• Basic search functionality
• Registrations with email verifications
• Password reset functionality
• Bookmarks
• Basic statistics tracking

Install Composer if you don't have it already

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Get the code:

git clone https://github.com/jc21/snippets-site.git
cd snippets-site

Next, run Composer commands to install the required Yii2 plugins and code for the app:

composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.0.3"
composer install

Now move the example config file and change the contents for your database setup:

mv common/config/main.php.example common/config/main.php
vi common/config/main.php

Then edit the params file and set your own secret string and fromEmail:

vi common/config/params.php

We need to make sure that some directories are writable by the server. This step only applies to unix based systems. I've got a script that will do this for you:

./make_writable

Assuming your database config is all correct you can run the Yii migration to inject the database schema.

Note: This is written for MySQL, if you want to use a different database type you'll need to edit the migration file to suit: console/migrations/m150922_000000_initial.php

./yii migrate

And finally you'll need to setup Apache (or whatever). There's an example config file:

cat common/config/httpd.conf

Once you're setup you can visit the site in your browser. To setup your initial user you can just Register.

Registration requires that your systems email is working. You can specify swiftmail options in the config if you want to use a SMTP or something else.

To close registrations all you have to do is edit the params.php file and change registrationsOpen to false.

There is none. I'm sharing this for the sake of sharing. I offer zero support and there's a high chance I won't respond to any issues.