This is a simple fly (Drosophila) management web application, written to easy laboratory fly stock management and sharing.

It is a project using Symfony2 by a novice web developer (also a young biologist, coincidentally), as his first web project, partly for fun. So, although it is ready to use :), no test has been written so far :(

1. Get the Flydb codes

Download the codes. For example, using git

git clone https://github.com/singingstars/flydb.git flydb-or-whatever-folder-name
cd flydb-or-whatever-folder-name

2. Install dependencies

curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

php composer.phar update

Refer to this note for Ubuntu 12.04 or elastic search installation After that, probably you need php-curl

sudo apt-get install php5-curl

3. Setup Symfony2

It's easier to setup a basic Symfony2 project, and then change the web root to flydb's web/ Refer to the Symfony2 documentation on installation

Use command php app/check.php to check the setup

Don't forget to modify permissions

rm -rf app/cache/*
rm -rf app/logs/*

sudo setfacl -R -m u:www-data:rwx -m u:`whoami`:rwx app/cache app/logs
sudo setfacl -dR -m u:www-data:rwx -m u:`whoami`:rwx app/cache app/logs

4. Setup database and (optionally) prepare sample data

Inside the app,

cp app/config/parameters.yml.dist app/config/parameters.yml

and do config according to Symfony2 docs, then update database schema

php app/console doctrine:database:create
php app/console doctrine:schema:update --force

Optionally, some test data is ready for import (do not do this when data already exists in your database)

php app/console doctrine:fixtures:load

Also, might need to populate existing data for the search module to work

php app/console foq:elastica:populate

5. Done.

Should return to you a nice web page when accessed from a browser.

Of course, the look is greatly copied from Twig website and the codes, a little messy.

Also, a backend management for users and locations has yet to be setup. Hopefully I will have time to make the improvements.