Getting started

Start here to learn the essentials about developing government focused web applications with deGov.

How to read and work with the Markdown files from the deGov project?

We are used to use PhpStorm for writing our code and reading any Markdown files. For inspecting, navigating the markdown files, we recommend the Markdown Navigator PhpStorm plugin.

Installing deGov

Technical requirements

• PHP
  • At least version 7.3
  • Extensions:
    • PDO
    • XML
    • Open SSL
    • JSON
    • cURL
    • Mbstring
• Apache Solr at least version 6.6
  • The database search is installed by default. If you want to use advanced search functions, then install Apache Solr in at least version 6.6.

Learn more about system requirements for Drupal.

Create the deGov project via Composer

With packages for development purpose
 

composer create-project degov/degov-project my_project_name/ --prefer-source --keep-vcs

Make sure your webserver is pointing the deGov host to the docroot directory. After Composer has fetched all code sources for you, you can install deGov into your database.

Without packages for development purpose
 

composer create-project degov/degov-project folder_name/ --prefer-dist --remove-vcs --no-dev

More about composers create-project command.

Run the deGov installer

After you have setup the project structure via Composer in your filesystem, you can install deGov like a traditional Drupal via the web installer or Drush. However, we do recommend the installation via our Robo build tool commands. It's quicker and handier. Just run the following command from the project root folder:

./bin/robo degov:site-install

To see all available Robo commands run:

./bin/robo list

Watch the deGov installation screencast on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-qpyBRTJ2A

Please make sure you are using PHP in at least version 7.3. That version is also the supported one via php.net. See https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php.