Adding Social Network Features to a PHP App with Neo4j

In the last part, we learned about Neo4j and how to use it with PHP. In this post, we’ll be using that knowledge to build a real Silex-powered social network application with a graph database.

Bootstrapping the application

I’ll use Silex, Twig, Bootstrap and NeoClient to build the application.

Create a directory for the app. I named mine spsocial.

Add these lines to your composer.json and run composer install to install the dependencies :

{
  "require": {
    "silex/silex": "~1.1",
    "twig/twig": ">=1.8,<2.0-dev",
    "symfony/twig-bridge": "~2.3",
    "neoxygen/neoclient": "~2.0.0"

  },
  "autoload": {
    "psr-4": {
      "Ikwattro\\SocialNetwork\\": "src"
    }
  }
} 

You can download and install Bootstrap to the web/assets folder of your project.

You can find the bootstrap demo app here as well: http://ift.tt/19oEjCH

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