luminova

Running Application

Luminova has a local development server, leveraging PHP’s built-in web server. You can launch the server in development mode which is totally optional or you can keep using on XAMPP, WAMPP etc for your application development.

Without Local Development Server

To run your application without Luminova built-in development web server, you only need to install XAMPP or WAMPP, the start the installed application services. Locate the htdocs in XAMPP directory or www in WAMPP directory and create your project directory example myproject.com.

Now access your project myproject.com in a web browser like http://myproject.com/public/, this will lunch your project.

With Local Development Server

You can launch Luminova development server, with the following command line in the main directory:

This will launch the server and you can now view your application in your browser at http://localhost:8080.

php novakit server

Passing your hostname and port to launch the server This will launch the server and you can now view your application in your browser at http://127.0.0.1:8081.

php novakit server --host=127.0.0.1 --port=8081

Specifying a specific version of PHP to use, can be done with --php option, the value should specify the path to the PHP executable version you want to use:

php novakit server --php /path/to/php.version

Application Routing & Controllers

Accessing global helper functions

Global Helper Functions