Creating 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 your to install Phalcon developer tools on your system and creating project with Phalcon Developer Tools in Linux. Before proceeding with this article you must have Phalcon php extension enabled in your system. Visit following url to install this extension.

>> Install Phalcon PHP Framework on Ubuntu

Install Phalcon Developer Tool

Phalcon Developer Tools can be installed using two method 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.

$ 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

Sample Output

Phalcon DevTools (1.3.4)

Available commands:
  commands (alias of: list, enumerate)
  controller (alias of: create-controller)
  model (alias of: create-model)
  all-models (alias of: create-all-models)
  project (alias of: create-project)
  scaffold
  migration
  webtools

Create A Sample Project

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

$ cd /var/www
$ phalcon create-project myapp

Lets create a virtual host in your Apache server like below

<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.volt file and add your own content.