CakePHP Application starter kit

Starter kit contains:

• Docker (Linux) or Docker Desktop (Mac or Windows)
• CakePHP 4.4.1 application skeleton
• Bootstrap 5.0 based theme plugin [WIP]
• Predefined Development docker environment (CkePHP, PostgreSQL, Redis)
• Ready to production deployment docker configuration (CakePHP, NGiNX, PostgreSQL, Redis), you can also enable traefik as well.

Your dev environment

Services contained for dev environment in docker-compose.dev.yml

Service	Ports	Description
Your App	8080	Your application
Adminer	8081	Database management tool
Postgres	5432 not exposed in production environment	Database server
Redis	6379 not exposed in production environment	Cache server
Minio	9000 (Api), 9001 (Console)	S3 compatible storage server

Installation

There are more different ways how to use this project as template for your new application. You can use script recomended to download template for you

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MayMeow/cakephp-starter-kit/main/create -o create-app
chmod +x create-app
sudo mv create-app /usr/local/bin/

then you can use create-app <your-app-name> to create your application.

or You can clone this project

git clone --depth=1 --branch=main https://github.com/MayMeow/cakephp-starter-kit.git app_name
cd app_name
rm -rf .git # then initialize new git repository with git init and set your remotes

or with composer

composer create-project --prefer-dist maymeow/cakephp-starter-kit:dev-main app_name
cd app_name

or with Docker

mdkir app_name
cd app_name
docker run --rm --volume $(pwd):/app ghcr.io/maymeow/php-ci-cd/php-ci-cd:8.0.2-cs-git sh -c "composer create-project --prefer-dist maymeow/cakephp-starter-kit:dev-main /app"
sudo chown -R $USER:$GID .

Configuration

Application will generate security key automaticlly with each install and with each build. This is OK for development but not for production. It is recomended to generate key manually as follows

docker-compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml run --rm cake-app php bin/cake.php generate_security_key

When you have key copy it and update .env.production file and paste your key right behind SECURITY_SALT= without any quotes.

Next update DB_USER, DB_NAME, DB_PASSWORD, POSTGRES_PASSWORD, POSTGRES_USER and db POSTGRES_DB. Other variables are preconfigured and if you dont change values in docker compose files you are good to go.

Enabling debug mode

For developmen you can enable debug mode by setting DEBUG=true in .env.production file. It is strongly recomended to diasble debug mode for production environment

Console

To access console use command as follows

docker-compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml run --rm cake-app php bin/cake.php

When you need to acces redis console you can use following command:

Getting all keys from redis cacge database

docker exec -it cake_redis redis-cl

# keys *

Issues, new features

If you found an issue or you want to provide feedback or you have an idea for new features. Use Issue tab on github project page.

Support

In case you wan to support development you can use funding button in right panel of this project. Or if you want to help develop this project write me email (address you can find on my profile) and I create account for you on my GitLab instance.

License

MIT