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A Symphony Workflow

I'm describing my workflow in these articles, before I start my next Symphony project. Mostly for myself, to iron out my recurring problems, it is based on solid git techniques, taking heed of advice learned from Symphony community members, many many tips on the web, and flicking through the pages of O'Reilly's Version Control with git.

The core aim of this article, is to get a good Symphony development and deployment environment using git as the basis for the organisation, and have it written down for reference.

This workflow can be applied to any project, in theory, that has a starting point being a private remote git repo.

Disclaimer

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FROM php:5.6-apache

RUN docker-php-ext-install bcmath
RUN docker-php-ext-install mysqli
RUN docker-php-ext-install opcache
RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo_mysql

RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install libxslt-dev zlib1g-dev -y
RUN docker-php-ext-install xsl

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Digital Ocean recently released private networking support in their NYC2 Data center.

They also published a blog post on how to setup a new droplet with private networking. But one thing the post doesn't do is tell you how to scale your private network for many boxes. One approach is obviously to edit /etc/hosts (but this gets annoying when you add a new box). A better way is to create an internal DNS zone (via the digital ocean web interface) and have your droplets use it:

Steps

setup the internal DNS zone file

1. Login to digital ocean
2. Click "DNS" on the right hand menu

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<?php

if (!function_exists('relative_path')) {
    function relative_path(string $from, string $to): string {
        // some compatibility fixes for Windows paths
        $from = is_dir($from) ? rtrim($from, '\/') . '/' : $from;
        $to = is_dir($to) ? rtrim($to, '\/') . '/' : $to;
        $from = str_replace('\\', '/', $from);
        $to = str_replace('\\', '/', $to);

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#Recommendations

A list of recommendations for the office and workflow.

1. Repositories and Tracking.

   • Bitbucket - 100% free git repository hosting. Quality issue tracking like Github, only completely free.
   • BitbucketCards - Kanban Agile issue management for Bitbucket repos. Teh awesomes. Teh blog post.

2. Workflow

   • Github Flow is used by Github and is a very uick and easy "community" based workflow.

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[Unit]
Description=Keeps a tunnel to 'remote.example.com' open
After=network.target

[Service]
User=autossh
# -p [PORT]
# -l [user]
# -M 0 --> no monitoring
# -N Just open the connection and do nothing (not interactive)

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
		xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
		xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common"
		extension-element-prefixes="exsl">



	<!--
		A complete XML to JSON transformation utility adapted from

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var sassIncl = require('sass-include-paths'),
    scssIncludePaths = sassIncl.nodeModulesSync();

exports.config = {
    paths: {
        watched: [
            'app'
        ],
        public: 'public'
    },

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require 'formula'

class Neo4j < Formula
  homepage 'http://neo4j.org'
  url 'http://dist.neo4j.org/neo4j-community-2.0.0-M06-unix.tar.gz'
  version 'community-2.0.0.M06-unix'
  md5 'fb57c0daae42c2212984e2d97669b36d'

  def install
    # Remove windows files

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require 'formula'

class Phpunit < Formula
  homepage 'http://www.phpunit.de/manual/current/en/index.html'
  url 'https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit.phar'
  sha1 'dc693b34a62644f61cfc01a22d9654ff4b8764af'
  version 'HEAD'

  def install
    bin.install "phpunit.phar" => "phpunit"