1.0 Quick Start Guide

Welcome to the sympal 1.0 Quick Start Guide! This document will help you easily get a new sympal project running in just a few minutes!

The first thing we need to do is create a directory to work in. This is where we will checkout symfony 1.4 and generate our project with the sympal installer script.

The below process requires that you have git installed on your system. This process has been verified for git 1.6.1 and later, but may work with earlier versions. If you'd like to try out sympal, download the sandbox on the Download page.

$ mkdir sympal

Now we need to make a few other directories in there that we will use in the next steps:

$ cd sympal
$ mkdir lib
$ mkdir lib/vendor

Now, lets checkout the latest version of Symfony 1.4:

$ git clone git://github.com/vjousse/symfony-1.4.git lib/vendor/symfony

Now lets snag the symfony installer script for sympal. If you have curl installed, simply run the following command. If not, you can also try wget or just download the installer.php file manually into the directory you created:

$ curl http://github.com/sympal/sympal/raw/master/data/bin/installer.php > installer.php

Ok, now we have everything we need! Lets install Sympal! The following command will take you through an interactive installation process where you setup your first user, the database credentials, etc.

$ php lib/vendor/symfony/data/bin/symfony generate:project sympal --installer=installer.php

The installer script will generate a new project and run a server environment check to tell you whether or not you can run Sympal!

After the check is complete it will report the results and ask if you wish to continue installing Sympal:

If you continue the installation you will be prompted to enter some informationin order to complete your installation:

Now your installation is complete and you can begin playing with Sympal! You now should see the default site ready for you to play with:

Continue reading the Sympal Reference Book to learn more about Sympal!