Hello everyone! I’ve been hearing a lot of requests to explain what kind of IDE and environment we use for local development. In house, we all agreed to use Netbeans IDE. This has great SVN support and works well with the Zend Framework. I will go over setting up a SocialEngine project below.
Depending whether or not your are a Mac or PC user you should check out these links to get you started in setting up a LAMP environment:
Mac Users:
https://www.mamp.info/en/index.html
https://verysimple.com/2011/08/18/installing-lamp-stack-on-osx-10-7-lion
Windows Users:
https://www.wampserver.com/en
https://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
Setting up a SocialEngine Project
Step 1. Download your SE package (and all the plugins) from your account dashboard:
Step 2. Unzip the files into the folder of your web server. In my example, it will be in /Users/junghokim/Sites/se_example.
Step 3. Next install your SocialEngine package in your local server.
http://www.socialengine.net/support/documentation/article?q=125&question=Installing-SocialEngine
I installed phpMyAdmin on my server as well for easy database management.
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php
Step 4. Once you have SE installed there, open Netbeans and create a new PHP project with existing sources
Step 5. Click on browse and navigate to your SocialEngine files and then click “Open” button -> “Finish”
Step 6. Once this is done, you should see your project like this:
Step 7. Now you can edit the files on a working copy! It is always exciting to see the cool stuff our clients do with our code. Here are some useful resources:
https://jadb.wordpress.com/about
https://socialenginecamp.com
https://www.se4users.com
As always, please contact us if you have any questions or concerns!
