Prado Starter Project

A Project skeleton to build PRADO Framework based web application.
Prado3 is a Component Framework for PHP 5 (Like ASP .NET dose for C#).

Pre-requisites :

• php : >=5.3.3
• ext-ctype
• ext-dom
• ext-json
• ext-pcre
• ext-spl

Installation :

Firstly run this command :

$ cd path/to/web/server/www
$ composer create-project enimiste/prado-project-starter project_name

If all goes right open the new project in your favorite IDE. (ex: PhpStorm)

Setup the Database schema and data :

You can use many types of database as it is supported by PDO Driver.
In this section i will focus on two database types : Sqlite and Mysql.

• Sqlite :
  • Prequisites :
    • Installing Sqlite3 from Sqlite3.
    • Enabling PHP Sqlite extension on php.ini file
  • The project is bundled with the database file located under protected/data/app.db.
  • This database is seeded with the needed data. So it is ready to use for next steps.
• Mysql :
  You have two options : Mysql extension or Mysqli extension
  So you should be sure that the desired extension is enabled in php.ini file before using it.

  1. Open the protected/config.database.xml file.

  2. Comment the sqlite config :

     <database ConnectionString="sqlite:protected/data/app.db"/>

  3. Uncomment the Mysql config (mysql or mysqli) :

     <!-- <database ConnectionString="mysqli:host=localhost;dbname=test"
                      username="dbuser" password="dbpass" /> -->
     <!-- <database ConnectionString="mysql:host=localhost;dbname=test"
                          username="dbuser" password="dbpass" /> -->

  4. Create an empty database named as ;dbname= in the step 3.

  5. Update host, username and password with the correct ones.

  6. Open your Mysql console and run the following statements in order :

     • The content of protected/data/migrations directory files (*.sql)
     • The content of protected/data/seeds directory files (*.sql)

Parameters config :

Now its time to update our parameters config located in the file protected/config/parameters.xml. Ex :

  <parameter id="base_url" value="http://localhost/project_name/"/>

This parameter is used to build assets urls (css, javascripts, ...) via the function site_url($uri)

Test in browser :

Now you can test the project.

1. Check if your web server under it the project is deployed is running.
2. Check if your RDBS is running if you use one.
3. Type the URL to your project in the browser. Ex : http://localhost/project_name.
4. The web app will show you the default page of Frontoffice.
5. To see the Backoffice, click on the link "Espace d'administration" (Backoffice space in frensh, sorry) :

   • A login page will show.

   • Type one of these credentials to access the web app as authenticated user :

     Username	Password	Role
     sadmin	sadmin	Super Admin
     admin	admin	Normal Admin
     user	user	Normal User

   • And bingo you can manage : users, site settings

Documentation :

The project is divided in two parts :

• FO : Front office
• BO : Back office

So protected/pages, protected/pages and themes directories are splited into two sub directories : fo and bo.

The themes directory holde the css, js files needed to render the IHM of each side of you web app. Ex: themes\bo contains sb-admin css and js files used in backoffice IHM.

The theme used in the backoffice is the SB-admin. For the front office is not implemented for instance.

Helpers functions :

I added a bunch of helper functions to help developper access most used features of Prado easaly.
Ex:

app();
//Shortcut to Prado::getApplication();
user();
//shortcut to Prado::getApplication()->getUser();

And so on ... Lets now take a tour of these function :

Request/Response :

Function	Return Type	Description
session()	THttpSession	Return the current running user session.
request()	THttpRequest	Return the current request.
response()	THttpResponse	Return the current response.
input($name [, $default = null] )	string	Retrieve a request input by its name or return a default value.
page()	`TPage	NPage`
redirect_page($page [, array $param])		Redirect the user to a given page. $page is the namespace format to the page, ex : bo.users.ListPage
redirect_url($url)		Redirect the user to a given url.
page_url($page [, array $param] )	string	Contruct an URL pointing to a given page. $page is the namespace format to the page, ex : bo.users.ListPage
site_url($uri)	string	Build an url to a resource located under the root directory of the project. The param base_url is used here.

Security :

Function	Return Type	Description
auth()	TAuthManager	Return the Authentication Manager.
user()	`IUser	TDbUser
is_guest()	bool	True if the user is not authenticated in the system.
is_admin()	bool	True if the authenticated user has one of the roles : Super Admin or Normal Admin
is_super_admin()	bool	True if the authenticated user has the role : Super Admin

General use :

Function	Return Type	Description
app()	TApplication	Return the current runining Prado Application instance.
module($id)	IModule	Get a module by its id.
running_service()	IService	Return the current running service that processing the request. For instance it returns the TPageService
page_service()	TPageService	If another service is processing the request, this function throw a function.
param($id [, $default = null] )	string	Retrieve a given parameter from the config/parameters file by its name. If not found, the $default value will be returned.
using($namespace)		Shortcut to \Prado::using( $namespace );. I think is more readable this way.
site_info($name [, $default = ''] )	string	Return a site setting by its name. If not found returns the default value.
mysql_timestamp(int $time)	string	Format the given time to the TIMESTAMP format requied by Mysql. Shortcut to date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', $time );
check_is_int(mixed $v)	bool	True if the $v is numeric and (is int or is string and is only integer). See source code for more details.

Localisation :

Function	Return Type	Description
localize($text [, array $parameters [, $catalogue = null [, $charset = null]]] )	string	Translate and localize a given $text based on the i18n and i10l of your application.

File System :

Function	Return Type	Description
file_extension($filename)	string	Returns the file extension by spliting its name.

LICENSE :

MIT