/helptext

HelpText+ Is an open source app for sms managment in non profit organizations

Primary LanguagePHPOtherNOASSERTION

Yii2, Phundament, helptext, Less and Gulp

#Project Based in Yii2 and Phundament4 with Gulp as assets generation tool

helptext This project is intended as a live, working pilot for a platform to empower existing non-profit helplines by providing access and management of mobile text and other emerging ways of communication. The platform will allow integration with their existing systems as well as upgrade, to enable them to keep-up and transfer their standards, knowledge and skills with ease.

Some features

Installation

Prerequisites

Before you start, make sure you have installed composer and Node.js. If you are on Debian or Ubuntu you might also want to install the libnotify-bin package, which is used by Gulp to inform you about its status.

Duplicate the .env-dist file

add a key http://randomkeygen.com/

Gulp

install gulp globally if you haven't done so before

npm install -g gulp-cli

Browsersync

install browsersync globally if you haven't done so before

npm install -g browser-sync

Composer

composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.1.1"
composer update

Post-installation

initialize the application, choose "development"

./init

Post-installation

Install the node modules by running this command at the project root directory:

npm install

After a successful install, build the project using:

gulp build

To launch a browser window and watch the project for changes:

gulp

To build optimized for production (minification, etc) specify the production flag:

gulp build --production

and/or

gulp --production

dev environment notes:

etc/apache2/sites-available configuration
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName helptext.dev
    DocumentRoot "/var/www/helptext/htdocs/web"
    ServerAlias www.helptext.dev
    <Directory /var/www/helptext/htdocs/web>
            Options +FollowSymlinks
            AllowOverride All
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/helptext.log
</VirtualHost>

you will have this

ln -s ../local/.env .env

you will need to configure the sms provider in your .env

configure the sms provider http post request url

http://www.yourdomain.com/en/message/call http://www.yourdomain.com/en/message/sms

you will need swiftmailer in order to work the email

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libphp-swiftmailer

###In Production with a shared hosting

  • Probably you want have the chance to create your own apache configuration file but you can add this to the .htaccess field in the web folder
#  Add directives
RewriteEngine on

#  Change root directory to "web" folder
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ /web/
RewriteRule ^web/(.*) /$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule !^web/ web%{REQUEST_URI} [L]

In the web folder then


allow from all

IndexIgnore */*

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . index.php
  • If the hosting has a proper security some php functions like exec will be ban. You don't need them to yii2 run or even create the assets folder, but you want be able to complie less on the go thats why we replace the less compilation and we run gulp before we go to staging or production.

###Troubleshooting on deploying

##env PROD #First of all if there are errors then change .env to dev and set debug mode to see errors

#Error "An internal server error occurred."

  • the app is running check db credentials in .env

#Error "The file or directory to be published does not exist: /home/oechitchat/BDP2F17M/htdocs/src/../vendor/bower/jquery/dist"

  • change the name of folder bower-asset to bower in the vendor folder

#Error seeing images

  • have you run gulp localy?
  • delete the assets in production to force to regenerate

###Some other documentation