Superlean Silex Starterplate

As Silex is end of life this boilerplate is abandoned!

This project is supposed to be a lean starterkit for your Silex app.
Its superlean, so basically only essential things are included.

If you need full power try: https://github.com/lyrixx/Silex-Kitchen-Edition

It aims mainly at simple applications that need routing and just some additional logic.
F.e. its a good container for javascript driven apps that get their data through API calls.

It provides:

1. Web infrastructure

• Skeleton CSS (http://getskeleton.com)
• Bower
• Twig
• HttpCache

2. REST Api infrastructure
3. Console infrastructure
4. Misc

• phpdotenv (https://github.com/vlucas/phpdotenv)
• symfony vardumper (https://github.com/symfony/var-dumper)
• stop dumper (https://github.com/ivoba/stop)
• symfony errors

Install

Via composer create-project

composer create-project -s dev ivoba/superleansilexplate PATH/TO/YOUR/APP 2.*
cd PATH/TO/YOUR/APP

If you want to base your app on this starter i recommend to do the following after create-project.

• remove .git and init your own git (you should be prompted for this by composer already)
• remove composer.lock from .gitignore, so you can store your dependency lock
• you might want to replace the namespace from "Superleansilexplate" to something more custom

Requirements

• bower, composer will call bower install

Usage

Api and web are designed to run on their own resp. subdomains with their resp starting point in /web. If you want to only have one starting point copy this to web.php:

$api = require __DIR__ . '/Controller/api.php';
$app->mount('/api', $api);

Config

In dev environment we use dotenv for configuration, so you can use a .env file in the project root to mimic Env vars.

Templates

Start hacking in resources/views/*.twig

Controller

Start hacking in src/Controllers/*.php

Provider

Add provider in src/app.php

Cli Commands

Create cli commands in src/Command and
register them in src/cli.php

Run

Run it with the php integrated webserver: http://silex.sensiolabs.org/doc/web_servers.html
or create a apache / nginx vhost.

Run Web

 php console server:run

 # in prod env
 php console server:run -e prod

and open http://127.0.0.1:8000

Run Api

 php console server:run -i api

and open http://127.0.0.1:8000

Run Cli

SILEX_ENV=dev php -d variables_order=EGPCS console silex:hello-world
# for cache clear
php console cache:clear

Tests

vendor/bin/phpunit

Heroku

Superleansilexplate is heroku ready.

Because we utilize bower, you will need to run multipacks while creating your heroku app:

heroku create --buildpack https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-multi

Then just initialize your heroku app as stated in the docs and push it:

git push heroku master

Docker

A docker setup for apache with php7 is provided.

For using docker in dev environments run docker-compose and check on http://localhost:8088:

docker-compose up

For a production build run:

docker build -t superleansilexplate -f docker/apache-php7-prod/Dockerfile . docker run -it --rm -p 8088:80 --env SILEX_ENV=prod --name run-superleansilexplate superleansilexplate

TODO:

• yeoman setup with grunt/gulp usage
• scrutinizr