Using Akelos framework

Get the Framework

Download the latest version of Akelos framework from [Akelos's website's download section|http://www.akelos.org/download|Akelos Framework Download].

Creating an Application

Preliminaries / Database Configuration

# Using a command line interface (i.e. Terminal), type the following:
## ./src/akelos/akelos ~/projects/*PROJECT_NAME*
# Create a symlink
## ln -s ~/Projects/blog/public /Applications/MAMP/htdocs
# Next, point to localhost, in order to setup the database connection details
## The database configuration script checks to see your current PHP settings and finds all the databases that you have support for (i.e. MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite etc.)
# By default (i.e. "out-of-the-box") the Akelos framework enforces the usage of three different databases: DEV / TEST / PROD
## Therefore, create the three different environments (i.e. just the three databases without the tables)
## You will need four key pieces of information, moving forward
### Database Host
#### If you have all three environment on your local machine, than this will be "localhost" for all three database configuration
### Database Name
### Username
### Password
# In case you are not familiar with three environment way of development:
## DEV is for _Development_, in which your error levels will be all "raised"; this is the place where you will do all the nitty-gritty work before the application reaches the Testing phase.
## TEST is for _Testing_, in which you will let the stakeholders perform the tests on the system
## PROD is for _Production_, in which you push the application once it has been tested and signed-off by the customer(s); this environment also has a better ways of handling errors (i.e. logging them, as oppose to having them exposed to the users)
# There is a native (out-of-the-box) support for internationalization. When you finish providing the database configuration details, you will be prompted to provide a 2 letter ISO 639 language codes (separated by commas) to make your app multi-lingual.
# That's it! now you are ready to start "Coding" your application.

Development

# Open/Load up the project in your favorite IDE
# Next, the first thing you will do is create a controller.
## In the command line, type: ./script/generate controller *NAME*
## You can check to make sure that the controller was created by pointing your browser to [http://localhost/NAME|http://localhost/NAME] (name of the newly created controller)
## Most likely (i.e. in _normal_ cases), you will get a Fatal error saying "Action _index_ does not exist for controller *NAME{*}Controller in ... on line ...
## So, create a function index() within the *NAME{*}controller class, rendering the hello world text:

function index()
{
     $this->renderText("Hello World");
}

##  TODO