This project is a for the SWITCH research study by the University of South Carolina. It involves the Comprehensive Food Database that can be seen here.

This project uses the PHP library Symfony.

To run, be sure to install Symfony and Composer.

In general, please follow this to set up the project.

You will need to get all the composer packages. Do this by running composer update followed by composer install NOTE: You may need PHP's xml extension. Install with sudo apt-get install php-xml and then restart apache with sudo service apache2 restart see here. NOTE: You may be able to bypass any issues with composer update by running composer install --ignore-platform-reqs. This is not recommended, however. To make this go faster, install php-curl with sudo apt install php-curl.

The following are useful extensions for this project.

• PHP Intelephense
• PHPDoc Comment (CTRL + Shift + i to add DocBlocks)
• PHP Namespace Resolver
• HTML Snippets
• JavaScript Code Snippets
• Symfony Code Snippets
• Symfony for VSCode
• Twig
• Twig Language 2
• Twig Language
• Emmet Live

To run the project, run symfony server:start -d

If you run into any problems with the database, make sure you have doctrine: composer require doctrine

You will also likely need to make migrations. php bin/console make:migration php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate

You will need to build the assets using npm. Make sure you have all of the required npm assets by running npm i.

There has been an error with the latest versions of npm. See this.

You may need to switch node versions to version 16. You should also have nvm. Install following here

Now to install node 16: nvm install 16

Now you should be able to run npm run build.