Well hi there! This repository holds the code and script for the API Platform course on SymfonyCasts.

If you've just downloaded the code, congratulations!!

To get it working, follow these steps:

Download Composer dependencies

Make sure you have Composer installed and then run:

composer install 

You may alternatively need to run php composer.phar install, depending on how you installed Composer.

Configure the .env (or .env.local) File

Open the .env file and make any adjustments you need - specifically DATABASE_URL. Or, if you want, you can create a .env.local file and override any configuration you need there (instead of changing .env directly).

Setup the Database

Again, make sure .env is setup for your computer. Then, create the database & tables!

php bin/console doctrine:database:create php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate 

If you get an error that the database exists, that should be ok. But if you have problems, completely drop the database (doctrine:database:drop --force) and try again.

Compiling Webpack Encore Assets

This tutorial uses Webpack Encore, which isn't important to understand what's going on, but is important to get our app running. We'll also do a little bit of JavaScript coding to talk to our API.

Make sure to install Node and also yarn. Then run:

yarn install yarn encore dev --watch 

Start the built-in web server

You can use Nginx or Apache, but Symfony's local web server works even better.

To install the Symfony local web server, follow "Downloading the Symfony client" instructions found here: https://symfony.com/download - you only need to do this once on your system.

Then, to start the web server, open a terminal, move into the project, and run:

symfony serve 

(If this is your first time using this command, you may see an error that you need to run symfony server:ca:install first).

Now check out the site at https://localhost:8000

Have fun!

If you have suggestions or questions, please feel free to open an issue on this repository or comment on the course itself. We're watching both :).

And as always, thanks so much for your support and letting us do what we love!

<3 Your friends at SymfonyCasts