I share here the script I use to initialize a new Symfony project, as I always subversion them.

This script handles the following default scenario :

• Local svn repository
• The SVN repository is created at initialization of the project
• The projects embeds the 1.0 branch of Symfony as a SVN external

You can customize the behaviour of the script defining environment variables. This is an unusual way to do, but it has two advantages :

• ENV variables are soooooooo easy to handle in a bash script :P when i wrote it I didn't want to take care of getopts
• It's so readable at launch, and you can define your own default options for the script, simply modifying your .bashrc :)

Here is what you can change in the default scenario :

• Use another already existing repository for your project's trunk.
• Use another branch of Symfony, or even specify the full Symfony repository URL (if you want to work with trunk, why not)
• Use a local installation of Symfony (not to embed Symfony in every project)

Here is what is always done, and the really goal of this script (to simplify your life) :

• Initialize project and commits first version
• Define the proper svn:ignore properties

Full usage :

Usage : new-symfony-project PROJECT-NAME
You can define following variables to customize the creation :
- SYMFONY_BRANCH : The Symfony branch used
- SYMFONY_REPOS : The full Symfony SVN repository URL, if set, SYMFONY_BRANCH is ignored
- SYMFONY_DATA : The path to the data folder of your Symfony installation. If not left
  empty, no SVN version will be downloaded (using local installation) and two precedent
  variables will be ignored
- TRUNK_URL : The trunk of your project (default : repos created)
- SVNADMIN_REPOS : Local root for SVN repositories
- WEB_DIR : Local root for Web directories
 

Examples :

  # Start a new project using default options
$ new-symfont-project MyProject
  # Start a new project embedding 1.1 Symfony branch
$ SYMFONY_BRANCH=1.1 new-symfont-project MyProject
  # Start a new project embedding 1.1 Symfony branch and versionned in a remote repository (already initialized)
$ SYMFONY_BRANCH=1.1 TRUNK_URL=my-svn-host/my-svn-repos/trunk new-symfont-project MyProject
  # Start a new project using system-wide install
$ SYMFONY_DATA=/usr/share/php/data new-symfont-project MyProject
 

Here is the code, you must customize the first 5 lines to fit your default environment options :

#!/bin/bash
 
DEFAULT_WEB_DIR=/home/naholyr/www
DEFAULT_SVNADMIN_REPOS=/home/naholyr/svn
DEFAULT_SYMFONY_BRANCH=1.0
 
 
PROJECT=$1
 
 
if [ "$PROJECT" = "" ]; then
  # Show help and exit
  echo "Usage : new-symfony-project PROJECT-NAME"
  echo "You can define following variables to customize the creation :"
  echo "- SYMFONY_BRANCH : The Symfony branch used (default : $DEFAULT_SYMFONY_BRANCH)"
  echo "- SYMFONY_REPOS : The full Symfony SVN repository URL, if set, SYMFONY_BRANCH is ignored"
  echo "- SYMFONY_DATA : The path to the data folder of your Symfony installation. If not left"
  echo "  empty, no SVN version will be downloaded (using local installation) and two precedent"
  echo "  variables will be ignored"
  echo "- TRUNK_URL : The trunk of your project (default : repos created)"
  echo "- SVNADMIN_REPOS : Local root for SVN repositories (default : $DEFAULT_SVNADMIN_REPOS)"
  echo "- WEB_DIR : Local root for Web directories (default : $DEFAULT_WEB_DIR)"
fi
 
 
if [ "$SVNADMIN_REPOS" = "" ]; then
  SVNADMIN_REPOS=$DEFAULT_SVNADMIN_REPOS
fi
 
if [ "$WEB_DIR" = "" ]; then
  WEB_DIR=$DEFAULT_WEB_DIR
fi
 
if [ "$SYMFONY_BRANCH" = "" ]; then
  SYMFONY_BRANCH=$DEFAULT_SYMFONY_BRANCH
fi
 
if [ "$SYMFONY_REPOS" = "" ]; then
  SYMFONY_REPOS=http://svn.symfony-project.com/branches/$SYMFONY_BRANCH
fi
 
 
if [ "$TRUNK_URL" = "" ]; then
  SVN_REPOS="file://$SVNADMIN_REPOS"
  SVN_PROJECT=$SVN_REPOS/$PROJECT
  # Create repository
  svnadmin create $SVNADMIN_REPOS/$PROJECT
  svn mkdir -m "Standard structure" $SVN_PROJECT/trunk $SVN_PROJECT/branches $SVN_PROJECT/tags
  svn mkdir -m "Create folder for Symfony" $SVN_PROJECT/trunk/lib $SVN_PROJECT/trunk/lib/vendor
  TRUNK_URL=$SVN_PROJECT/trunk
fi
 
 
# Create web folder
cd $WEB_DIR
svn co $TRUNK_URL $PROJECT
cd $PROJECT
 
if [ "$SYMFONY_DATA" = "" ]; then
  # Download Symfony
  svn propset svn:externals "symfony $SYMFONY_REPOS" lib/vendor
  svn commit -m "External link to Symfony"
  svn update
  SYMFONY_DATA=$(pwd)/lib/vendor/symfony/data
fi
 
# Create Symfony project
$SYMFONY_DATA/bin/symfony init-project $PROJECT
 
# Link to Symfony web elements
ln -s $SYMFONY_DATA/web/sf web/sf
 
# Commit the new project
svn status | grep ^? | sed "s/? *//" | xargs svn add
svn mkdir lib/model/om lib/model/map
svn propset svn:ignore "*" log
svn propset svn:ignore "*" cache
svn propset svn:ignore "*schema-transformed.xml" config
svn propset svn:ignore "lib.model.schema.sql
plugins.*.sql
sqldb.map" data/sql
svn propset svn:ignore "*" lib/model/om
svn propset svn:ignore "*" lib/model/map
svn commit -m "Project initialized"
 
# Conclusion
./symfony -V
echo "Working directory : $WEB_DIR/$PROJECT"
echo "You should be ready to go :)"
 

Note that if you work this way, intensively take advantage of Subversion and install plugins as svn:externals ;)