Social Utilities PHP Dev Environment

Overview

A provisioned PHP working environment for “social utilities”, a sandbox of helper tools supporting the social-network projects in this archive (the SOCKAM client and WAVE heatmap). Captured mainly as its PuPHPet-generated Vagrant environment plus an html/ web root.

Why It Exists

To provide a consistent, throwaway-able PHP environment for building and testing small social-platform utilities without polluting the host machine.

What We Built

A full PuPHPet Vagrant setup: a config-driven Vagrantfile reading puphpet/config.yaml, with shell + Puppet provisioning (initial setup, Puppet update, librarian-puppet, file execution), configurable synced folders, port forwarding and SSH. The html/ directory served as the web root; the committed index.html is a placeholder.

Technologies & Approach

Vagrant + Puppet via PuPHPet for a fully configuration-driven PHP environment, the same provisioning pattern used across the social-platform repos here.

Outcome / Impact

Provided the supporting environment for social-utility development. The provisioning survives intact; specific utility scripts did not. It evidences disciplined, reproducible environment management around the social projects.

Capabilities Demonstrated

• Configuration-driven PHP environments with PuPHPet (Vagrant + Puppet)
• Maintaining reproducible sandboxes for auxiliary tooling