CMS2 Developer Notes

CMS2 is our web development platform, built on Zend Framework 2 (and in need of updating). ZF2 is used in conjunction with a few other components, such as Symfony.

We use a LAMP stack - the basic hierachy looks like this:

• Debian (Linux)
  • We use Vagrant (with Parallels) to create a Debian virtual machine for development. The MyCMS2 Toolchain project helps us set up and manage this VM.
• Apache2 (Web Server)
  • Apache2 has a bunch of website configuration to serve the sites. For development, we use some Grunt scripts inside the MyCMS2 Toolchain to make managing and updating these easier during the development process.
• MySQL / MariaDB (Database)
  • Database modelling is done via the ZF2 models. We use some scripts to help generate the required SQL changes when the model changes, and manually run those on the database.
• PHP (7.4...)