Flight PHP Skeleton App Simple Version

Use this skeleton application to quickly setup and start working on a new Flight PHP application. This application uses the latest version of Flight PHP v3.

This skeleton application was built for Composer. You also could download a zip of this repo, downloading a zip of the flightphp/core repo, and manually autoload the files by running require('flight/autoload.php') in your app/config/bootstrap.php file.

Installation

Run this command from the directory in which you want to install your new Flight PHP application. (this will require PHP 7.4 or newer)

composer create-project flightphp/skeleton cool-project-name

Replace cool-project-name with the desired directory name for your new application.

Note: If you are installing with PHP 8.0 or above and want to use tracy-extensions be sure to run composer require --dev flightphp/tracy-extensions "^0.2" after the project is created.

Simple Setup of the Application

This is basically a single file application. The only exception to this is the config file which is still in the app/config/ directory. This is a good starting point for smaller projects or projects that you don't anticipate will grow much.

To use the simple version, you'll need to copy the app/config/config_sample.php file to app/config/config.php.

With the simple setup, there is two very import security steps to be aware of.

• DO NOT SAVE SENSITIVE CREDENTIALS TO THE index.php FILE.
• DO NOT COMMIT ANY TYPE OF SENSITIVE CREDENTIALS TO YOUR REPOSITORY.

This is what the config file is for. If you need to save sensitive credentials (API keys, database credentials, etc), save them to the config file and then reference them in the index.php file.

More Complex Application

If you want to build a more complex application, go to the flightphp/skeleton project for a more robust setup.

Running the Application

No Dependency Setup

To run the application in development, you can run these commands

cd cool-project-name
composer start

After that, open http://localhost:8000 in your browser.

Note: If you run into an error similar to this Failed to listen on localhost:8000 (reason: Address already in use) then you'll need to change the port that the application is running on. You can do this by editing the composer.json file and changing the port in the scripts.start key.

Docker Setup

You can install Docker and use docker-compose to run the app with docker, so you can run these commands:

cd cool-project-name
docker-compose up -d
# or if a newer version of docker
docker compose up -d

After that, open http://localhost:8000 in your browser.

Vagrant Setup

You can install Vagrant and a provider like VirtualBox and use simple run the following command to bring up an environment with PHP/MariaDB already setup based on n0nag0n/firefly

cd cool-project-name
vagrant up

After that, open http://localhost:8000 in your browser.

Do it!

That's it! Go build something flipping sweet!