FOF

Concept

A dev box and deployment tool in one. It can be used by teams very effectively. But it is geared to a one man development/sysadmin team.

RAD

Get a development environment and web application up and running in less than an hour with all necessary and useful development tools with a modern PHP framework and frontend framework pre-installed and pre-configured and do it by only installing virtualbox, vagrant and running one command: vagrant up.

Frameworks

• Phalcon PHP
• Gumby 2
• AngularJs

Package Management

• PHP: Composer
• JS: Bower

Tools

• Phalcon Web Tools
• PhpMyAdmin
• Puphpet
• CodeMirror
• Prebuilt Project Dev Admin to reconfigure project, handle sass/compass, add/remove javascript libraries

Deployment

Plus, I as developer want to be able to mock up an idea quickly, add necessary linux packages on the fly when needed and get at least a halfway working application going before I put it on an other environment, i.e. live on the web. But by the time the application is too that point, I have no idea how custom my box is by then.

So I want to be able to change the configuration of the box in puppet. That way when the site is live, I have a template of the server I need waiting and the site can be live quickly.

Project Contents

Vagrant box

• Apache2
• MySQL
• PHP 5.4
• MongoDB
• PHP QA Tools
• Phalcon PHP
• Phalcon Devtools
• Xdebug
• PhpMyAdmin
• nodejs
• grunt
• bower
• sass
• compass
• claymate

Frameworks

• Phalcon PHP

To add

• Gumby 2
• Angular.js
• Require.js
• More needed services to phalcon project
• Add mongo service to phalcon project

Getting Started

I have tried to keep most of the development environment as well as tools self contained in the virtualbox. But you will need the following to get started.

• VirtualBox
• Vagrant
• Git (Optional: if you want to git pull this project instead of downloading the zip)

Steps after installing above

• run git clone https://github.com/eristoddle/FOF.git or download the archive and extract it
• open terminal in FOF/vagrant
• run vagrant up
• wait for vagrant to finish
• set up this in your host's host file: 192.168.56.101 fof.local (Planning to change this so http://192.168.56.101 works for the project but can't quite figure out how to set the main apache doc root, though creating a virtual host seems easy. Editing a host file adds another step to the 3 steps I claim and I planning on keeping it 3 steps.)
• Browse to http://fof.local
• Your application files will be located in FOF/www/ and this folder is shared with the vagrant box var/www
• PhpMyAdmin will be at http://192.168.56.101/phpmyadmin
• fof database is already is use in project. Modify it to add tables. Then use http://fof.local/webtools.php to create models and scaffolding
• Xdebug is installed and usable in box
• ssh to vagrant box with vagrant ssh. Then all command line tools in box are available, including:
  • PHP QA Tools
  • Phalcon developer tools in Phalcon

Issues

• Can't figure out how to set Apache's document root so I can just browse to http://192.168.56.101, so have to use a virtual host and edit host's host file for now.
• Phalcon dev tools installed but not available in path, known issue with dev tools
• www-data permissions on a Windows host. cache files can't be written

TODO

• Keep all dev tools in shell scripts
• Move tools needed in all environments to puppet