PHP Bootstrap (base / project skeleton)

Introduction

This is a repository intended to serve as a starting point if you want to bootstrap a project in PHP. This repository has been explained in the CodelyTV video "Introducción a PHP: Cómo configurar tu entorno de desarrollo 🐘" (Spanish).

It could be useful if you want to start from scratch a kata or a little exercise or project. The idea is that you don't have to worry about the boilerplate, just run composer create-project codelytv/php-bootstrap your-project-name and there you go:

• Latest versions of PHP and PHPUnit
• Best practices applied:
  • README.md (badges included)
  • LICENSE
  • composer.json
  • phpunit.xml
  • .gitignore
  • .editorconfig
  • [.travis.yml][link-travis-yml]
  • .scrutinizer.yml
• Some useful resources to start coding

How To Start

You have 2 different alternatives: Using our Packagist project with Composer, or manually cloning this repo:

Using Composer

Start completely from scratch without having to delete this bootstrap project Git history:

1. If you don't have it already, install Composer.
2. Create your project based on the Packagist project. This will also download the project dependencies: composer create-project codelytv/php-bootstrap your-project-name.
3. Move to the project directory: cd your-project-name
4. Run all the checks: composer test. This will do some checks that you can perform with isolated commands:
   1. PHP Parallel Lint: composer lint.
   2. PHP Style Check: composer style. If you want to fix style issues automatically: composer fix-style.
   3. PHP Unit: composer phpunit.
5. Create your own repository:
   1. Initialize your own Git repository: git init
   2. Add the bootstrap files: git add .
   3. Commit: git commit -m "Initial commit with project boilerplate based on https://github.com/CodelyTV/php-bootstrap"
   4. Add your remote repository: git remote add origin [email protected]:your-username/your-project-name
   5. Upload your local commits to the new remote repo: git push -u origin master
6. Start coding!

Cloning the repository

Just in case you prefer to avoid dealing with composer create-project, you can also clone this repository. We recommend to follow the next step by step process in order to avoid adding the bootstrap project commits to your project Git history:

1. Use this repositoy template
2. Clone your project
3. Move to the project directory: cd your-project-name
4. If you don't have it already, install Composer.
5. Install the project dependencies: composer install
6. Run all the checks: composer test. This will do some checks that you can perform with isolated commands:
   1. PHP Style Check: composer style. If you want to fix style issues automatically: composer fix-style.
   2. PHP Unit: composer phpunit.
7. Start coding!

Helpful resources

PHP 7

• PHP 7 new features
• Scalar type declarations example
• Return type declarations example

PHPUnit

• Introduction to writing tests for PHPUnit
• Testing exceptions with PHPUnit
• PHPUnit assertions

Refactoring

• Refactoring.guru Code Smells catalog
• Refactoring.guru Refactorings catalog
• SourceMaking Refactorings catalog
• Martin Fowler Refactorings catalog
• CodelyTV Refactoring videos (Spanish)

Other programming languages

• PHP
• Scala

About

This hopefully helpful utility has been developed by CodelyTV and [contributors][link-contributors].

We'll try to maintain this project as simple as possible, but Pull Requests are welcomed!

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.