Installation

This guide will walk you through the process of creating a new application.

• System requirements
• Create application
• Setup and run application

#System requirements

Before you start, ensure the following are installed on your system:

• PHP 8.1 or higher, along with the following PHP extensions:
  • Ctype
  • DOM
  • Fileinfo
  • JSON
  • libxml
  • Multibyte String
  • OpenSSL
  • SimpleXML
• Composer
• A web server with URL rewriting capability

#Create application

To create a new application, open a terminal (either Command Prompt or Terminal app, depending on your OS) and run the following Composer command from the directory where you want to install your application:

composer create-project zaphyr-org/app my-app

This command installs a fresh skeleton application in a directory named my-app. Feel free to replace my-app with your desired application name.

#Setup and run application

After creating the application, navigate to your application directory (my-app):

cd my-app

Set the APP_URL environment variable in the .env file at the root of your project directory:

APP_URL=http://localhost:8000

The .env file stores important configuration settings, such as environment variables. You can read more about it in the configuration section.

To start the built-in PHP web server from the root of your project, run the following command:

php -S localhost:8000 -t public

The application is now running on http://localhost:8000. You can access it in your browser by visiting the URL.