Craft starter package

I've put together a small set of defaults to kickstart the development of a new Craft CMS project.

Features

• Ready to version control: files that need not to be in GIT are excluded
• Database config is extracted to the web/env.php file
• The index.php is also modified to require the environment file
• Schematic plugin is a very useful plugin to import / export your Craft field / section settings to a YAML file and add it to GIT. Saves tons of time and reduces the possibilities of bugs. The package name is added to the composer.json file, just type composer install.

Folders

• /static folder contains a Gulp setup that compiles SASS + JS to a minified version. It helps the kickstart of a new project's frontend side, but it's undrelated to Craft. Feel free to delete it.
• /temp folder is just my convention to store client assets there, they ignored by GIT
• /web is where you should copy the Craft installation

Getting started

Step 1

Download the Craft CMS package from https://craftcms.com/ and copy everything from the zip to the web directory.

Delete Craft's public/index.php and use the _index.php instead.

OR

alternatively simply copy and paste this to the beginning of the index.php file:

if ( file_exists("../env.php") )
{
	require_once '../env.php';
}
else 
{
	exit('<h1>Fatal error: no database environment file found!</h1><p>Please check the readme.md for instructions.<p>');
}

Step 2

Rename web/craft/config/_db.php to db.php. Modify it to your taste.

Step 3

Rename web/_env.php to env.php and set the correct credentials.

You are all set, proceed with installing Craft as usual

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