robbrandt/menteer

menteer

requirements

• PHP 5.4.9
  • For MAC:
    • curl -s https://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 5.4
    • export PATH=/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH
  • For Windows:
    • Download from https://windows.php.net/downloads/releases/archives/php-5.4.8-Win32-VC9-x86.zip
    • Extract to C:\php
    • Add C:\php to your system PATH variable
• MySQL 5.1+

installation instructions

Steps:

1. clone the repository
2. move to server root (if on localhost specify menteer.dev so the index.php defines this as a development install) see index.php for more info
3. (linux) chmod 777 /application/cache and /application/logs
4. rename /application/config/config_clean.php to config.php and set the encryption to something unique
   • Search for $config['encryption_key']
5. modify /application/config/database_clean.php and email_clean.php by removing "_clean" from filename
6. create a database schema called global_herizons and set it as default
7. initialize the database
   1. run /sql/setup.sql
8. configure database.php to point to your database
   • hostname
   • username
   • password
   • database - global_herizons
9. (linux) chmod 777 /uploads folder and set "php_value upload_max_filesize 20M" & "php_value post_max_size 21M" in your htaccess
10. ensure php is accessible via PATH
11. configure php.ini (located in the php folder):
    1. set date.timezone = UTC
    2. set extensions for MySQL:
       1. extension_dir = "C:\php\ext"
       2. extension=php_mysqli.dll

Optional:

1. default user - > create account and change in user table -> field active to 1 for new user / to make admin see users_groups and insert user with admin group

running

To run:

php -s localhost:8000

features

• mobile friendly and responsive
• database driven (extendable)
• drop and go code-base (minimal setup required)
• PHP 5.4.9
  • PHP 7+ will not work due to deprecations
• MySQL 5.1+

technology stack / open source

• codeIgniter 3.0 - PHP Framework
• ion_auth 2.6 - Authentication Library
• normalize.css v3.0.2 | MIT License | git.io/normalize
• https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/src/css/main.css
• https://github.com/sliptree/bootstrap-tokenfield
• Bootstrap v3.3.1 (http://getbootstrap.com)
• jQuery 1.11.1 (jQuery UI, jQuery Carousel Plugin, SmoothScroll Module, JavaScript Custom Forms / Checkbox Module)
• Hammerjs v2.0.4

security

• XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Filtering - This filter looks for commonly used techniques to embed malicious JavaScript into your data, or other types of code that attempt to hijack cookies or do other malicious things.
• SQL Injection Protection
• CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) Protection - which is the process of an attacker tricking their victim into unknowingly submitting a request. Automatically triggered for every non-GET HTTP request.
• Input Validation (All GET AND POST data Cleaned and Validated)
• MySQLi Driver used
• Encrypted URL used when doing sensitive tasks
• Forced SSL/HTTPS
• SMTP (Sendgrid) email ready (out-of-the-box)
• Cloudflare tested and ready

optional services used

• sendgrid (email STMP) - for sending email
• uservoice - for feedback and user tracking
• google analytics

road map

• Extending admin to manage database driven questions/questionnaire
• Extending admin control panel