Installation and Setup - rawebone/Wilson GitHub Wiki

System Requirements

PHP 5.3 or greater
Apache or a web server which supports URL rewriting

Installation

The framework can be installed through Composer by running this command:

$ composer require "rawebone/wilson:1.0.*"

Or manually by adding the following to your composer.json file and and the following line into your require block:

{
    "require": {
        "rawebone/wilson": "1.0.*"
    }
}

And then run a composer update.

Index.php

Wilson works on the Front Controller principle, in which all traffic is first directed through an index.php file which interprets the request and passes it to an appropriate handler in your application. The minimum amount of code required to get this to work is:

<?php

require_once "vendor/autoload.php";

$api = new Wilson\Api();
$api->dispatch();

We'll build on this later.

Web Server Configuration

Please read the following appropriate to your web server to direct the traffic to your index.php.

Apache

Ensure the .htaccess and index.php files are in the same public-accessible directory. The .htaccess file should contain this code:

RewriteEngine On
 
# If you are using aliases you should setup your rewrite base;
# For example if index.php is located in http://localhost/my/app/
RewriteBase /my/app/

# If you do not have any other files in the folder with your
# index.php then skip the next line as it slows down request
# processing markedly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]

Additionally, make sure your virtual host is configured with the AllowOverride option so that the .htaccess rewrite rules can be used:

AllowOverride All