README

Cowtent is an evolutive Content Application both accessible by Web Browser and by Rest Api.

Main features:

• Multiple accounts (like Saas profiles)
• Multiple users by account
• Multiple applications by account (Rest Api entry point)
• Multiple workspaces by account
• Multiple branches by workspace (eg: MASTER for Production environment)
• Polymorphic content types
• Content versionning
• Sync functions between branches on a same workspace
• ...

Still under hard development !

Rest Api is built using Json format exchange with WSSE security authentication.

Documentation

• Rest Api Documentation

Requirements

System

Based on top of Symfony 2.7.x, main requirements are dicted by Symfony itself:

• PHP >= 5.3.9
• PHP Modules:
  • php5-curl
  • php5-gd
  • php5-intl
  • php5-mysql
  • php5-mongo
  • php5-mcrypt
  • php-apc for PHP 5.4
  • php5-apcu for PHP 5.5
• MySQL 5.1 or above (or compatible like PerconaDB)
• MongoDB 3.0 or above
• Apache mod rewrite enabled

Installation instructions

Install Composer

If you don't have Composer yet, download it following the instructions on getcomposer.org or just run the following command:

$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Please note that you will certainly need to provide your GitHub credentials with this method, A lot of our dependencies are coming from GitHub and this reaches the max limit of 50 API calls from anonymous users.

Create a project with Composer

$ php composer.phar create-project --prefer-dist cowtent/cowtent-application ./cowtent-project --stability=dev

Write permissions

As for each Symfony2 projects, rights must be adapted for some folders:

• app/cache
• app/logs

Read this article if you need more details: http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/installation.html#checking-symfony-application-configuration-and-setup