Tutorial Part 2 - Installation

We're going to write a brand new symfony project to try out the plugin. Just create a new directory, and initialize an empty project. You should already be familiar with the symfony version (1.1, 1.2, or 1.3) you're using.

Let's get it..

First of all we need to install the plugin. You have few different options that are available to install the plugin. The easiest one is to use the plugin:install task to get the latest version:

$ ./symfony plugin:install sfDynamicsPlugin --stability=alpha

Other options include setting the svn:externals property of your plugin directory to a svn tag, or to the svn trunk, and pulling directly from the git repository. We won't dive into detailed explanations about this.

Additional steps

The most important additional step there is to create an apache-writeable %sf_web_dir%/dynamics directory, which will be used for grouped assets supercache. For now, this is not configurable but it will be soon.

$ mkdir web/dynamics
$ chmod 777 web/dynamics

Now, you can add the sfDynamics module in the enabled_modules setting of your application's setting. The sfDynamics module is the rendering gateway needed to compile/pack/shrink/expand/crush your assets. Just remember that without a

As of symfony 1.2, you also have to activate the plugin by editing your config/ProjectConfiguration.class.php and adding the following line where relevant (if you don't know where this is, you should consider grabbing some informations about symfony first).

$this->enablePlugins(array('sfDynamicsPlugin'));

Check everything is ok

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You're now ready to take one step further and start using dynamics in your first project.