CsnCmsApplication

Complete Zend Framework 2 Application, built using coolcsn modules

An enhanced ZF2 Skeleton application

CsnCmsApplication is a ZF2 Skeleton application with pre-installed modules for Authentication, Authorization, Navigation and CMS based on Doctrine. It is a great place to start building your ZF2 web applications.

Installation

• Download the application from the github repository via the Download ZIP button and extract.
• Set a virtual host to the project folder.
• In a console run php composer.phar self-update to update your Composer, followed by php composer.phar install to install all dependencies (it could take a couple of minutes).
• Create a new MySql database (using PhpMyAdmin for example).
• Go to ./config/autoload folder of your project and remove the .dist extensions from the files where needed (those files won't be tracked by Git as they are keeping sensitive information).
• Edit the file ./config/autoload/doctrineorm.local.php. Replace the connection/database parameters with your actual values for the database you created in a previous step.
• Edit the file ./config/autoload/mail.config.local.php. Replace the SMTP server parameters with your actual values (You can use your gmail account credentials for example to test it out). The mail server configuration is used by CsnUser module for sending confirmation emails to registered users, sending new passwords in case of forgotten ones, etc.
• Run ./vendor/bin/doctrine-module orm:schema-tool:create to generate the database schema.
• Import the SQL data (for sample roles, languages and CMS resources) located in ./data/SampleData.sql. You can easily do that with PhpMyAdmin.

Optional configuration

• Edit the file ./config/autoload/csnuser.global.php to adjust your Authentication preferences (you may want to change tha static salt for example).
• Edit the file ./config/autoload/acl.global.php to control the access of your users to different resources in your application.
• Edit the file ./config/autoload/navigation.global.php to change what is displayed in your navigation. Note that the navigation is coupled with the ACL to make sure there are no links to non-accessible resources for the current user.

Now what?

• Open your favourite browser and navigate to the virtual host address you've set up (for example coolcsn.localhost). Register an user and log in. Enjoy! :)
• If you want to try out the CMS, make sure your user has admin rights to be able to create new articles (this requires a simple database record update). Alternatively you can modify the ACL to allow members or even guests to modify articles. Then simply navigate to [coolcsn.localhost/csn-cms/article].
• Check coolcsn's github profile for other great modules. We will highly appreciate if you submit issues and give us feedback for your experience with coolcsn modules.