PingApp

What is PingApp?

A personal SMS check-in app - check if your friends respond.

System Requirements

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

• PHP version 5.4.0 or greater
• Database Server
  • MySQL version 5.5 or greater
  • PostgreSQL support is coming
• An HTTP Server. PingApp is known to work with the following web servers:
  • Apache 2.2+
  • nginx
• Redis
  • required for Message Queuing
• Unicode support in the operating system

Downloading

1. Open a terminal
2. Clone the project git clone https://github.com/ushahidi/pingapp.git
3. Update the submodules git submodule update --init --recursive
4. Install the Twilio packages using Composer by running composer install.

Installing

1. Create a database

2. cp application/config/database.template application/config/database.php

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

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

4. Install the database schema using migrations

   ./minion --task=migrations:run --up

5. cp application/config/init.template application/config/init.php

6. Edit application/config/init.php and change base_url to point the the httpdocs directory in your deployment

7. cp application/config/auth.template application/config/auth.php

8. cp application/config/modules.template application/config/modules.php

9. cp application/config/redis.template application/config/redis.php

10. cp httpdocs/template.htaccess httpdocs/.htaccess

11. Edit httpdocs/.htaccess and change the RewriteBase value to match your deployment url

12. Create directories application/cache and application/logs and make them writable

Upgrading

1. Perform a git pull https://github.com/ushahidi/pingapp.git
2. Run migrations ./minion --task=migrations:run

Configuration

Base config files are in application/config/.

Twilio

1. Get a free account at https://www.twilio.com/.
2. cp application/config/sms.template application/config/sms.php
3. set account_sid and auth_token

'options' => array(
    'account_sid' => 'TwilioAccountSID20130924',
    'auth_token'  => 'TwilioAuthToken20130924'
  )

Default Login

The default login credentials are admin / westgate

Designers

Please refer to PING's Design Guide

Tests

• To run unit tests locally run ./vendor/bin/phpunit -c application/tests/phpunit.xml
• View continuous integration build statuses on Travis