Chialab.it & friends

Websites

• Chialab Design Company (https://www.chialab.it)
• Chialab Open Source (https://www.chialab.io)
• Illustratorium (https://www.illustratorium.it/)

Local project setup

Requirements

• PHP >= 8.2
• MySQL >= 8
• Composer
• Node.js
• Yarn

Install dependencies

composer install

yarn install

Config

Copy the config/app_local.example.php file to config/app_local.php and set your local configuration.

cp config/app_local.example.php config/app_local.php

and make sure to update the Datasource section with your MySQL connection settings.

Then, ensure the following environment variables are set:

• FRONTEND_PLUGIN - The frontend plugin to use (could be BEdita/API for API frontend or Chialab for websites frontends
• THEME - The theme to use (could be Chialab for chialab.it or OpenSource for chialab.io)

You can set the environment variables in your virtual host, configuration:

SetEnv FRONTEND_PLUGIN Chialab
SetEnv THEME Chialab

or in the config/.env file:

export FRONTEND_PLUGIN="Chialab"
export THEME="Chialab"

Folder structure

• chialab-design-company [required]
  • footer [required]
  • .....
• chialab-open-source [required]
  • .....

Migrations

Run cake migrations to create or update the database schema:

composer migrate