Create Project with Phalcon Developer Tools in Linux

Phalcon Developer Tools are very useful for creating core components for your project using simple commands. Using developer tools we can create new projects, controllers, and models in your projects.

This article will help you to install Phalcon developer tools on your system and creating a project with Phalcon Developer Tools in Linux. Before proceeding with this article you must have Phalcon PHP extension enabled in your system. Visit the following URL to install this extension.

>> Install Phalcon PHP Framework on Ubuntu

Install Phalcon Developer Tool

Phalcon Developer Tools can be installed using two methods described below. Select one method only.

Method 1 – Using Git Source

Phalcon developer tools can be install simply downloading source code and create a symbolic link to bin directory. Use following commands to do it.

cd /opt
git clone https://github.com/phalcon/phalcon-devtools.git
ln -s /opt/phalcon-devtools/phalcon.php /usr/local/bin/phalcon
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/phalcon

Method 2 – Using Composer

Using this method you must have composer installed your system. Don’t have composer ? Visit here.

Create a composer.json file under /opt/phalcon/ directory using following content

mkdir /opt/phalcon && cd /opt/phalcon
vim composer.json

{
    "require": {
        "phalcon/devtools": "dev-master"
    }
}

Now execute following commands to install tools and create symbolic link to systems bin directory

cd /opt/phalcon
composer install
ln -s /opt/phalcon/vendor/phalcon/devtools/phalcon.php /usr/local/bin/phalcon
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/phalcon

Check Available Phalcon Commands

At this stage, you have successfully configured Phalcon Developer Tools in your system. To check all available commands for creating and managing project use following command.

phalcon commands

Phalcon DevTools (3.4.0)

Available commands:
  info             (alias of: i)
  commands         (alias of: list, enumerate)
  controller       (alias of: create-controller)
  module           (alias of: create-module)
  model            (alias of: create-model)
  all-models       (alias of: create-all-models)
  project          (alias of: create-project)
  scaffold         (alias of: create-scaffold)
  migration        (alias of: create-migration)
  webtools         (alias of: create-webtools)
  serve            (alias of: server)
  console          (alias of: shell, psysh)

Create A Sample Project

To create a project using Phalcan developer tools, execute the following command. It will create a directory structure for your project.

cd /var/www
phalcon create-project myapp

Let’s create a virtual host in your Apache server like below. Nginx users read this to create server block.

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin [email protected]
        ServerName phalcon.example.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/myapp/public
        <Directory /var/www/myapp/>
            Options all
            AllowOverride all
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

After adding above host restart your web server and access website in your browser. You will see default content like below. To change content of default page edit myapp/app/views/index/index.phtml file and add your own content.