Symfony video

Introduction

This project ambition is to create a video platform. Started as a college project, we plan to continue it as a side project.

The end goal is to be able to search for videos, adds them to a watchlist, and watch them.

Features

Note: For our college project, the goal is to have a functioning homepage customization, accounts system, administration panel and basic film research.

• Users (login, register)
• Admin panel
• Homepage customization with markdown
• Blog
• Contact form
• Media search
• Media watchlist
• Media player

Installation

Before starting, make sure you have the following installed on your computer:

• PHP 8.2
• Composer
• NodeJS
• MySQL
• Symfony CLI

Setup

1. Get the codebase from GitHub
2. Copy the .env file to .env.local
3. Set up the MySQL database in the .env.local file
4. Install the dependencies with composer i
5. If there is any php file in the migrations folder, delete them
6. Run the command symfony console make:migration
7. Create the database if not already created with symfony console doctrine:database:create
8. Then run the command symfony console doctrine:migrations:migrate to create all the tables
9. Run the SQL setup script: ./setup.sql
10. Install NodeJS dependencies with npm i
11. Build the assets with npm run build
12. Start the local server with symfony serve
13. Go to localhost:8000 in your browser
14. Follow the instructions to create an admin account