duplamatyi/simple-symfony-chat

A simple chat application written in Symfony.

Simple Chat Application

1. Installing the project

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First clone this repository to your local machine.

Install the dependencies with composer:

composer install

Make sure that the app/logs, app/cache and db/ directories are writable for both the command line user and the web server user.

Create the sqlite database by running the migrations:

app/console doctrine:migrations:migrate

2. Running the tests

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You can run the tests with PHPUnit:

bin/phpunit -c app/

3. Managing users

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You can create new users and list exising users with the following commands:

app/console chat:user:create user1
app/console chat:user:create user2
app/console chat:user:list
+----+----------+
| id | username |
+----+----------+
| 1  | user1    |
| 2  | user2    |
+----+----------+

4. Trying out the API

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Start PHP's built-in web server:

app/console server:start

Go to the API documentation at http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/doc/ and try out the sandboxes:

Or use curl from a terminal:

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"author_id":"1","recipient_id":"2","content":"Hello World!"}' http://127.0.0.1:8000/message/send
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://127.0.0.1:8000/message/get-messages?recipient_id=2