README

This repository provides the basic application structure of the Claroline
platform. It doesn't contain the sources nor the third-party libraries
required to make the application fully functional. Those sources have to
be installed following one of the procedures described below.

If you want to contribute or directly browse the sources of the project,
check the claroline/Distribution repository, which gathers
the standard modules and plugins of the platform.

Requirements

For a development installation, you'll need at least:

• PHP >= 7.1 with the following extensions:
  • curl
  • fileinfo
  • gd
  • intl
  • mbstring
  • mcrypt
  • xml
  • json
  • zip
• MySQL/MariaDB >=5.0
• composer (recent version)
• node.js >= 8.9
• npm >= 6.4

It's also highly recommended to develop on an UNIX-like OS.

For mysql >= 5.7, there is an additonal step:

    mysql -u**** -p
    set global sql_mode='';
    exit;

Installation

1. From source

The raw installation procedure is comprised of several steps that need to be
executed in order (fetching php sources, installing dev dependencies, building,
creating the database, etc.). Except for the configuration step, the whole process
is managed through composer scripts listed in the composer.json
file. For an installation from scratch, the commands would be:

git clone http://github.com/claroline/Claroline
cd Claroline
php scripts/configure.php
composer update --prefer-dist --no-dev
 
npm install
composer build

php app/console claroline:install

Upgrade 12.x

To update your 12.x just follow this steps :

1. Update source

composer update --no-dev   
npm install
composer build

2. Launch update script

php app/console claroline:update 12.x.xx 12.y.yy

Upgrade From 10.x or 11.x

To update an existing development installation, just pull the latest changes
(or a specific version) of this repository and follow this steps:

1. go to 12.x branch

 git fetch origin
 git checkout origin/12.x

2. Update source

composer update --no-dev
npm install
composer build

3. Launch update script

php app/console claroline:update 1x.x.xx 12.1.0

4. Migrate some ressource

php app/console claroline:scorm:convert
php app/console claroline:dropzone:convert

Development

Some assets of the platform are managed by webpack. In a
development environment, they require the webpack dev server to be
running. You can start it with:

npm run webpack:dev

Obviously, you'll also need a PHP-enabled web server to serve the application.
Two alternatives are available.

1. Using PHP's built-in web server

This is the simplest way of serving the application during
development. To start the server, use the command provided by the symfony
framework (more details here):

php app/console server:start

The application will be available at http://localhost:8000.

2. Using a standalone web server (recommended)

If you want to use Apache or Nginx during development, make them serve the
web directory, and access the application at
http://localhost/example-site/app_dev.php.

Note that you'll certainly face permissions issues on the following directories:

• app/cache
• app/config
• app/logs
• app/sessions
• files
• web/uploads

All of them must be recursively writable from both the web server and the CLI.
For more information on that subject, see the configuration section
of the official Symfony documentation.

Usage

You can create a first admin user with:

php app/console claroline:user:create -a

Plugins

Plugins are managed by composer like any other package in the platform.
You can install or uninstall the sources of a plugin by adding or removing
the package from the require section of your composer.json and running
composer update, or using shortcuts like composer require ....

Once the plugin package is in your vendor directory, you can proceed to the
(un-)installation using one the following commands:

php app/console claroline:plugin:install FooBarBundle
php app/console claroline:plugin:uninstall FooBarBundle

Important: Note that the installation and upgrade procedures of the
platform described above apply only to the "standard" distribution, which
comes with a fixed set of plugins. If you deviate from that set, you'll have
to maintain your own composer files and perform composer update and
php app/console claroline:update accordingly.

Browser support

We recommend to use Claroline Connect with the latest version of Mozila Firefox or Chromium.

We support :

• Mozilla Firefox (latest version)
• Chromium (latest version) and Google Chrome (latest version)
• Microsoft Edge (latest version)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
• Safari (latest version)

For complete list : http://caniuse.com/#feat=mutationobserver

Documentation

For user documentation, see : http://doc.claroline.com.

For development documentation, see
Claroline/CoreBundle/Resources/doc/index.md.