Chat application bases on symfony components

• PHP 5.6
• mod_rewrite must be enabled

1. git clone [email protected]:medbenhenda/chat-project.git

2. cd chat-project

3. install dependencies: execute composer install

4. database settings:

   Edit config/database/mysql.yml file

   mysql:
   
       driver: pdo_mysql
       user: root
       password: ''
       dbname: chat
   

5. Mapping: create tables in the database:

execute php vendor/doctrine/orm/bin/doctrine orm:schema-tool:update --force

6. Generate entities proxies

execute php vendor/doctrine/orm/bin/doctrine orm:generate-proxies

7. go to the url

In this project many Symfony component are used: Security, var-dumper, templating, config, YAML, routing, console, http-foundation, validator

Doctrine and Twig 3rd party applications are installed. Doctrine for the mapping between Relationel Database and PHP objects. Twig is used as the templating engine.

the index.php is the front controller that call the kernel to handle the request and send the response.

The config directory contains the configuration of the routes and the config of the database.

The kernel class instantiate the request object, check the route, get the appropriate controller and called its action.

An entityManager is defined in the Kernel directory used along the application. a bootstrap file is defined in the route used by CLI for doctrine commands

App directory contains the application ode. The application is modular there are 2 used modules: CoreModule for the chat and User Module for the handling of user and messages.

The cache directory contains the proxy entities class generate by doctrine (see point 4)

Assets directory contains all front end files (CSS, Js, Images).

cli-config.php file used by doctrine command line it include the bootstrap file