##Installation ###Getting the base project Composer is a dependency management library for PHP, which you can use to download the Cubex Framework, and example project.

Start by downloading Composer onto your computer.

Once composer is installed, to clone the base cubex project, you simply need to run

composer create-project cubex/application-skeleton myproject

replacing myproject with the name of the project folder you wish to work with.

###Getting your web environment setup There are various ways in which you can get your cubex project running on a web server.

• Virtual Host
• htaccess
• Raw PHP
• PHP Development Server

Each environment requires you setup the Cubex Environmental variable, which is CUBEX_ENV, with the exception of the //PHP Development Web Server// which will apply "development" as default environment.

Configurations for the various options can be found below. Once you have your environment setup, you should be able to navigate to your configured path, and see the sample project.

###Setting Your Virtual Host

<VirtualHost *:80>
    SetEnv CUBEX_ENV development

    DocumentRoot "project_path/public"
    ServerName cubex.local
    ServerAlias www.cubex.local
    ErrorLog "logs/cubex-error.log"
    CustomLog "logs/cubex-access.log" common

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$        /index.php  [L,QSA]
</VirtualHost>

###htaccess

SETENV CUBEX_ENV development

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)$        index.php  [L,QSA]

###Raw PHP

Within public/index.php before initiating cubex, you can put the environment directly into php with

putenv("CUBEX_ENV=development");

###PHP Development Server

Running the following command within the root of your project will allow you to access this project with http://localhost:8080

php -S 0.0.0.0:8080 public/index.php