This is a Test bundle to test the power of the symfony framework.

This bundle provides:

• A Form to persist in the database a nickname.
• A Random Lottery raffle that show the winner.

There is an example of the project on-line in: http://lottery.feerb.com/

This version of the bundle requires Symfony 2.8.

If you are starting a new project you need install symfony standard, if you already have a symfony project go to next step.

If you arent install symfony yet you need to read symfony install documentation

Add this bundle into src/ folder

Enable the SimpleLotteryBundle bundle in your AppKernel

<?php
// app/AppKernel.php

public function registerBundles()
{
    $bundles = array(
        // ...
        new SimpleLotteryBundle\SimpleLotteryBundle(),
    );
}

Fist, if you aren't configured your database you need to read symfony database documentation.

Your parameters should looks like this.

# app/config/parameters.yml
parameters:
    database_driver: pdo_mysql
    database_host: 127.0.0.1
    database_port: null
    database_name: blog_bundle_dev
    database_user: myUser
    database_password: myPass
    locale: en
    secret: ThisTokenIsNotSoSecretChangeIt

Now that the bundle is configured, the last thing you need to do is update your database schema.

run following command.

$ php doctrine:schema:update --dump-sql

It will show the changes that will be made ​​in the database, if everything is correct then you can execute.

$ php doctrine:schema:update --force