From 1144e49b8e00fa75b1593e4637c9218d7d944b97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabio Bas <ctrlaltca@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 21:33:46 +0100
Subject: Big quickstart doc overhaul, pt. 1

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 .../pages/GettingStarted/Installation.page         | 41 +++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'demos/quickstart/protected/pages/GettingStarted/Installation.page')

diff --git a/demos/quickstart/protected/pages/GettingStarted/Installation.page b/demos/quickstart/protected/pages/GettingStarted/Installation.page
index 7919e733..956f53c2 100755
--- a/demos/quickstart/protected/pages/GettingStarted/Installation.page
+++ b/demos/quickstart/protected/pages/GettingStarted/Installation.page
@@ -5,16 +5,17 @@
 If you are viewing this page from your own Web server, you are already done with the installation.
 </p>
 <p id="30019">
-The minimum requirement by PRADO is that the Web server support PHP 5.2. PRADO has been tested with Apache Web server on Windows and Linux. Highly possibly it may also run on other platforms with other Web servers, as long as PHP 5.2 is supported.
+The minimum requirement by PRADO is that the Web server support PHP 5.3.3. PRADO has been tested with Apache Web server on Windows, MacOSX and various Linux distro. Highly possibly it may also run on other platforms with other Web servers, as long as PHP 5.3.3 is supported.
 </p>
 </div>
 
-<div id="install-steps" class="block-content">
 <p id="30020">
-Installation of PRADO mainly involves downloading and unpacking.
+PRADO can be installed as a standalone package or using <a href="http://getcomposer.org/">composer</a>
 </p>
+<div id="install-steps" class="block-content">
+<h3>Standalone package</h3>
 <ol>
-<li>Go to <a href="http://www.pradosoft.com/">pradosoft.com</a> to grab the latest version of PRADO.</li>
+<li>Go to <a href="http://www.pradosoft.com/download/">pradosoft.com</a> to grab the latest version of PRADO.</li>
 <li>Unpack the PRADO release file to a Web-accessible directory.
 </ol>
 </div>
@@ -25,5 +26,37 @@ Your installation of PRADO is done and you can start to play with the demo appli
 <p id="30022">
 If you encounter any problems with the demo applications, please use the PRADO requirement checker script, accessible via <tt>http://web-server-address/prado/requirements/index.php</tt>, to check first if your server configuration fulfills the conditions required by PRADO.
 </p>
+
+<div id="install-steps" class="block-content">
+<h3>Composer install</h3>
+<ol>
+<li>If you don't have installed composer already, install it globally:
+<com:TTextHighlighter CssClass="source block-content">
+$ curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
+$ php composer.phar install
+</com:TTextHighlighter>
+</li>
+<li>Create a composer.json file for your project:
+<com:TTextHighlighter CssClass="source block-content">
+{
+    "require": {
+        "pradosoft/prado": "~3.2"
+    }
+}
+</com:TTextHighlighter>
+</li>
+<li>Now run the actual installation:
+<com:TTextHighlighter CssClass="source block-content">
+$ composer install
+</com:TTextHighlighter>
+</li>
+<li>In your project include the autoloader, and you will have access to the library classes:
+<com:TTextHighlighter CssClass="source block-content">
+<?php
+require_once('vendor/autoload.php');
+</com:TTextHighlighter>
+</li>
+</ol>
 </div>
+
 </com:TContent>
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