codeTech Computer Club (Website)

codeTech Computer Club was founded at Mira Costa College Oceanside in early-2013. Our goal was to bring together students, graduates, teachers, and industrymen, all who were aspiring to enter or who had experience in technology fields. We would share our knowledge and build great things together.

codeTech's website serves a few purposes:

To allow prospective members to learn about and join the club.
To allow members to collaborate and communicate with each other.
To allow members to track the progress of projects, start their own, and share them with members, friends, employers.
To provide software and tutorials as resources.

Live Website

codetechcomputerclub.com

Contact

This project is led by Jackson Ray Hamilton (jackson@jacksonrayhamilton.com). Email him if you want to help out!

Further contact info is also available on our Contact page.

Installation

The website has dependencies that need to be installed with Composer.

Note on PHP:

You should open php.ini, Ctrl+F for display_errors, and set it to True. This way PHP will actually throw errors, which will make the installation process easier in case anything goes wrong.

Linux / Mac:

Have git and php installed.
- Debian: sudo apt-get install git php5
- Mac (using Homebrew): brew install git
Open a terminal and issue the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/codetech/codetechcomputerclub.git
cd codetechcomputerclub
php bin/composer.phar install

Make the cache writable:

sudo chmod -R 777 app/tmp/cache/

You might also need to enable mod_rewrite:

sudo a2enmod rewrite && sudo service apache2 restart

Windows:

Install PHP if you haven't already.
Download and extract the website's archive.
Open a command prompt and navigate to the codetechcomputerclub folder you just extracted.
Issue the following command, but replace c:\php\php.exe with your path to php.exe. (Figure out where it is.)

c:\php\php.exe bin\composer.phar install

If the above command doesn't work, install Composer on your system and then (in the codetechcomputerclub folder) issue the following command:

composer install

Set up the database:

A database schema is located at bin/database.sql. Run the commands contained therein to set up the website's database.
- In bash, you can issue the command mysql < bin/database.sql.
- In phpMyAdmin, you can click the "SQL" tab at the top of any page, copy and paste the contents of database.sql into the "Run SQL query/queries" form, and click "Go".
- Or look up "how to execute SQL queries in MySQL".
Make a copy of app/Config/database.php.default named database.php. Fill out your credentials in the $development array, and change the __construct() function if you want to use a ServerName other than localhost or ctcc.local.

Configure Apache:

Open up /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, or httpd.conf (wherever it may be on your system), or create a new virtual host.

If editing apache2.conf or httpd.conf, make sure the following components and the <Directory> directive are included. Your paths will probably differ.

DocumentRoot "/var/www/app/webroot"
SetEnv CAKEPHP_DEBUG 1
<Directory "/var/www">
	AllowOverride all
	Order allow,deny
	Allow from all
	Require all granted
</Directory>

If creating a virtual host (your paths will probably differ):

<VirtualHost *>
	DocumentRoot "/var/www/ctcc/app/webroot"
	ServerName ctcc.local
	SetEnv CAKEPHP_DEBUG 1
	<Directory "/var/www/ctcc">
		AllowOverride all
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
		Require all granted
	</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

And also, if using virtual hosts:
- Make sure to add ctcc.local to the /etc/hosts file (Linux / Mac), or the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file (Windows).
- Make sure to properly enable virtual hosts in apache2.conf or httpd.conf. (This process is different for every system, so have fun Googling.)

Set up emails:

Make a copy of app/Config/email.php.default named app/Config/email.php.
Fill out your Google credentials in the $gmail array.
- This file is untracked, so don't worry about your credentials leaking out.