Installation

Starting a New Project

The best way to start a project is to base it on a already available project distribution. There are distributions for general web projects or for projects that require an micro-framework style approach.
Distributions come with a predefined app file structure, some boilerplate code and the bundled core library.

We’ll base our new project off the officially supported standard distribution.

For the start we’ll use composer to create our project in
the current directory as project.

composer create-project --prefer-dist unionofrad/framework project

Pedal to the Metal

For the purposes of this guide, we’ll be using PHP’s builtin development webserver. This is good for development but should of course not be used in production. Instructions on how to use other
webservers in production can be found on the Web-Servers page.

Permissions

The framework will need write access to the app/resources/tmp as it used to store cached versions of
already compiled templates or logs. The webserver user must be able to write to this directory.

Starting the Webserver

Make sure you are in the root of the project. Now start PHP’s builtin webserver using the following command. Your project is then being served at 127.0.0.1 on port 8080.

php -S 127.0.0.1:8080 -t app/webroot index.php

Finally, pull up the project in your browser and visit http://127.0.0.1:8080.
At this point, you should be presented with the default home page. You’re up and running!

Livin’ on the Edge

The methods described in the previous sections will download the most recent tagged version of
the framework and core library. In some cases, it may be desirable to update both to the very
latest available revision, which may not have been tagged yet.

composer create-project -s dev unionofrad/framework project
cd project
git checkout 1.0
cd libraries/lithium
git checkout 1.0