Snuti PHP & Handlebars boilerplate

A PHP project template setup with Handlebars rendering on server and client side. To quickly build a web app with a PHP API and easy database integration. Automatically create and modify the database structure during development for fast itterations.

Only the files in the "live" folder is accessible to the public and should be set as nginx/apache site root, hiding all other works files. The Grunt configuration is an important part of this setup.

To see this template in action, check out the Pålegg GitHub and the Let's code on YouTube.

Setup and config

1. Fork/clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/ecker00/snuti-php-boilerplate.git your-project-name
cd your-project-name

2. Install PHP dependencies (requires composer):

composer install

3. Install Grunt dependencies (requires node, npm):

npm install -g grunt-cli # If grunt is not installed globaly yet
npm install

4. Start Grunt to generate nessecary files (On Mac, the Grunt file needs to be slightly changed, see mac related notes in Gruntfile.js)

echo 1 > _tmp/version.txt
grunt build
grunt

5. Configure your webserver:

• Cloud9 with a PHP & Apache container:

  sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/001-cloud9.conf
  

  Change 'DocumentRoot' to point to the live folder in your project.

  DocumentRoot /home/ubuntu/workspace/[your-project-name]/live
  

6. Start / restart your webserver

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Logging and debug

• Cloud9 with a PHP & Apache container:

  tail -f [path-to-your-project]/php_errors.log
  

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Thanks

That's all there is to it! You can use this as a base to start any fancy web project. The method is tried and proven to work well for us in production. It's even possile to make this a Wordpress plugin, and get the best (and worst) of two worlds.

Happy coding!