This is an implementation of the Spring Framework PetClinic demo application. It uses The Php Symfony 2.0 framework.

Symfony 2.0 is a significant upgrade to the Symfony framework and parts of the framework are being adopted for larger projects like Drupal. The choice for our testing was based on the fact that the models are lazy-loaded by default unlike other PHP frameworks which is useful for certain aspects of our testing.

1. Prerequisites

• Php 5.3 most recent version.
• Webserver - Apache 2.x
• MySQL 5.x

Before you begin, make sure that your local system is properly configured for Symfony. To do this, execute the following:

php app/check.php

If you get any warnings or recommendations, fix these now before moving on.

2. Install aditional Php libraries

Some additional libraries are require for the application. If you're using the distribution version of the php tools (pecl, pear) you'll need sudo - we typically compile our own php for testing.

pecl install PDO_MYSQL

As per instructions in the install you should add "extension=pdo_mysql.so" to your php.ini

This library is for running tests so you could skip if you no intention of running the test suite.

pear config-set auto_discover 1
pear install pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit

First copy the app/config/parameters.ini.dist file to app/config/parameters.ini From the project home directory:

php bin/vendors install

3. Configure apache

You should add something like this to the apache configuration file httpd.conf

Alias /petclinic/ $APP_HOME/SymfonyPetClinic/web/
<Directory "$APP_HOME/SymfonyPetClinic/web" >
  AllowOverride All
  Allow from All
</Directory>

The application .htaccess file has been configured to use htttp://localhost/petclinic/app_dev.php for the development environment.

4. Setup and populate database

First go to http://localhost/petclinic/app_dev.php and click on configure button. Follow the instructions to configure the mysql database connection for the application.

This may not work currently. If you don't get a symfony specific page you can just edit the app/config/parameters.ini file directly.

php app/console doctrine:database:create

php app/console doctrine:schema:create

php app/console petclinic:populate

This command has options to control how many owners and vets are generated. See

php app/console petclinic:populate -h

This can take a while depending on how many pet owners and vets are requested.

5. Check the application

php app/console assets:install web

If you have a problem clear the caches for the production deployment before going further php app/console cache:clear --env=prod