Ushahidi 3

System Requirements

To install the platform on your computer/server, the target system must meet the following requirements:

PHP version 5.3.0 or greater
Database Server
- MySQL version 5.5 or greater
- PostgreSQL support is coming
An HTTP Server. Ushahidi is known to work with the following web servers:
- Apache 2.2+
- nginx
Unicode support in the operating system

Installing

Create a database
Copy appliication/config/database.php to application/config/environments/development/database.php

Edit application/config/environments/development/database.php and set database, username and password params

return array
(
	'default' => array
	(
		'type'       => 'mysql',
		'connection' => array(
			'hostname'   => 'localhost',
			'database'   => 'lamu',
			'username'   => 'lamu',
			'password'   => 'lamu',
			'persistent' => FALSE,
		),
		'table_prefix' => '',
		'charset'      => 'utf8',
		'caching'      => TRUE,
		'profiling'    => TRUE,
	)
);

Install the database schema using migrations

./minion --task=migrations:run --up 5. Copy appliication/config/init.php to application/config/environments/development/init.php 6. Edit application/config/environments/development/init.php and change base_url to point the the httpdocs directory in your deployment 7. Copy httpdocs/template.htaccess to httpdocs/.htaccess 8. Edit httpdocs/.htaccess and change the RewriteBase value to match your deployment url

Config

Base config files are in application/config/.

You can add per-environment config overrides in application/config/environments/. The environment is switched based on the KOHANA_ENV environment variable.

Routes are configured in application/routes/default.php. Additional routes can be added in per-environment routing files ie. application/routes/development.php.

Extras

Vagrantfile

We've included a Vagrantfile and puppet manifests to help build a quick development box. Install Vagrant, then run vagrant up to get started!

Travis-CI

Unit and functional tests are run automatically by Travis-CI. See .travis.yml for config details.

Testing

We use PHPUnit for unit tests, and Behat and Mink for functional testing. You can install the Behat, Mink, PHPUnit and other required packages using Composer. Just run composer install

Behat and PHPUnit will be installed to ./bin at the root of the repository.

Create a behat config file by copying application/tests/behat.template to application/tests/behat.yml. Edit the file to set your deployments base url. Run the tests as follows:

./bin/behat --config application/tests/behat.yml
./bin/phpunit -c application/tests/phpunit.xml

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